Professor Zhu Chaodong, lead scientist in insect evolution studies at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, said that a mass outbreak of billions of cockroaches into the local environment would be a "catastrophe".
Like cockroaches, the conspiracy theorists suggesting the Zika virus outbreak is anything but a normal, naturally-occurring event have begun to come out of the woodwork.
Bill Marler, a Seattle food safety attorney, said he doubts that the cockroaches found this week had anything to do with the salmonella outbreak.
The company has battled back from a 2013 outbreak of salmonella that sickened hundreds of people in 2013, as well as a more recent cockroach infestation and rash of food safety citations at its Livingston plant.
An outbreak of extended-spectrum β-lactamase producing Klebsiella pneumoniae in a neonatal unit was attributed to cockroaches (2 ).
Food safety offences include outbreaks of food poisoning that are caused by a restaurant with poor hygiene standards or a takeaway that had a cockroach infestation.
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