Hong Kong – Food Alert – A kind of bottled preserved bean curd contaminated with Bacillus cereus

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2015-01-22
Source of Information	Centre for Food Safety (CFS)
Food Product	Fermented bean curd
Name of Importer
Product name and Description	Details of the products are as follows: Product name: Yummy House Wet Bean Curd Place of origin: China Best before date: August 29, 2016 Total net weight: 280 grams per bottle
Reason For Issuing Alert	– The preserved bean curd sample was collected at a shop in Sha Tin for testing under the CFS’ regular Food Surveillance Programme. Test result showed that the sample contained Bacillus cereus at a level of 260 000 per gram. -According to the “Microbiological Guidelines for Food”, it is potentially injurious to health or unfit for human consumption if a gram of ready-to-eat food contains more than 100 000 of Bacillus cereus. -Consuming food contaminated with excessive Bacillus cereus may cause gastrointestinal upset such as vomiting and diarrhoea.