The Department of Disease Control of Thailand (DDC) is advising people to be careful with what they eat this summer to avoid food poisoning and diarrhea.
He said diners must ensure the food they are served is hot and clean, adding that ice cubes are also carriers of germs.
Ice cubes are usually used to cooling drinks and foods during the summer and hot weather days in Taiwan. In order to continuously ensure the sanitation and safety of ice cube product for consumers, Taiwan Food and Drug Administration (TFDA) will initiate the 2021 Inspection Project for Ice Cube, and will be conducted with local government health bureaus to improve food safety and sanitation management.
The inspection items will focus on the registration requirements for food businesses, the Regulation on Good Hygiene Practice for Food (GHP), the product liability insurance, the self-management, the product traceability, the transport control, the food practitioner sanitation management. And the ice cube products will be checked of labeling and hygiene compliance. Violating provisions of the Act Governing Food Safety and Sanitation will be punished by law.
TFDA strongly recommends food businesses effectively implementing the self-management following the Act Governing Food Safety and Sanitation to ensure ice cubes safety and sanitation to protect the health of consumers.
The Norwegian Institute of Public Health (NIPH) is reporting a Salmonella outbreak which is geographically spread over large parts of country.
Twenty cases have been reported–12 confirmed and 8 suspected cases. The same genetic profile have been detected in all 12 confirmed cases. Preliminary analyzes of samples from the 8 suspected cases indicate that these also carry the outbreak strain.
Those affected are aged from 11 to 91 years, median age is 59 years. 60% are women. The infected live in Viken (9), Oslo (3), Innlandet (2), Vestfold and Telemark (1), Agder (1), Rogaland (1), Vestland (1), Møre og Romsdal (1) and Nordland (1). 10 of the cases have been hospitalized.
“The infected live in many different counties. Therefore, we believe that they are infected through a food that is widely distributed”, says doctor Hilde Marie Lund at the department of infection control and emergency preparedness.
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Kenya has banned all maize imports to curb the entry of unsafe grains into the country.
According to a letter by the acting Director-General of the Agriculture and Food Authority (AFA), Kello Harsama to the Commissioner of Customs in the Kenya Revenue Authority, the ban has been put in place after a survey on maize from Uganda and Tanzania showed it was not fit for human consumption.
“The authority has been conducting surveillance on the safety of food imports into Kenya. The results from maize imported from Uganda and Kenya have revealed high levels of mycotoxins that are consistently beyond safety limits,” reads the letter dated March 5.
Six people have died from food poisoning in Kyrgyzstan after dining at a cafe, the press service of the country’s Ministry of Health reported on Thursday.
Early Thursday morning, four victims went to the Aksy Territorial Hospital in Jalal-Abad Oblast in the southern part of the country for treatment for food poisoning.
Three of them have died despite rescue measures while the other one continued to receive treatment, whose symptoms are moderate and the person’s condition is stable, the ministry said, adding that another three victims died from food poisoning at home.
The victims said that 19 people had salad and beshbarmak and drank alcohol diluted with water for lunch at a cafe on Tuesday.
At present, local health workers are checking the rest participants of the meal, and an epidemiological investigation into the poisoning is ongoing, the ministry said. Enditem
Several collective food poisoning infections possibly linked to the consumption of contaminated oysters have been reported since mid-February 2021 in several regions of France.
Since mid-February 2021, 46 mandatory declarations (DO) of collective food poisoning (TIAC) suspected of being linked to the consumption of oysters have been sent to Public Health France and / or to the General Directorate of food .
The meal dates at the origin of these toxi-infections are between 02/11/2021 and 02/25/2021 with a majority of meals reported on 02/14 (21 TIAC, 46%). All these TIACs took place in the context of a family meal with between 2 and 8 patients. A total of 164 patients were recorded and two people were hospitalized.
These TIACs mainly took place in New Aquitaine (23 in the department 33, 7 in the 17, 4 in the 40 and 2 in the 64), 5 in Pays de la Loire, 3 in Occitanie, 1 in Brittany and 1 in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté. For 36 of these TIACs, the origin of the oysters is known: Arcachon basin for 24 TIAC, Hossegor lake for 5, Marennes d’Oléron for 6 and Baie de Plouharnel for 1.
Stool analyzes carried out by the National Reference Center for Gastroenteritis Viruses in patients following 2 TIACs confirmed the presence of norovirus.
Shellfish collected from individuals who were sick after consuming oysters as well as from suppliers were analyzed by reference laboratories and laboratories approved by the Ministry of Agriculture and Food: noroviruses were identified . Noroviruses have also been detected in several production areas of consumed oysters.
The contamination of shellfish by norovirus for other TIACs is also suspected in view of the symptoms of sick people, mainly diarrhea and vomiting, and the incubation times between the consumption of shellfish and the onset of symptoms found during investigations of patients. TIAC. The torrential rains observed at the beginning of February may have favored the contamination of the environment / production areas and therefore of shellfish.
Four areas are currently closed by prefectural decrees temporarily prohibiting fishing, collection, transport, purification, shipping, storage, distribution, marketing and release for human consumption. shellfish following the discovery of the contamination of shellfish by noroviruses: the Arcachon basin (Gironde) since 02/18/2021, Hossegor lake (Landes) since 03/02/2021, the Chenaux du Payré (Vendée) since 25/02 and the bay of Plouharnel (Morbihan) since 03/03/2021.
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Kenilworth Dairies is conducting a recall of Kenilworth Dairies Full Cream Milk 3L, 2L and 1L. The product has been available for sale at independent grocers and Kenilworth Dairies Cafe in QLD.
Best Before
BB 15/03/21
The recall is due to microbial (E.coli) contamination.
Food products contaminated with E.coli may cause illness if consumed.
Australia
Any consumers concerned about their health should seek medical advice and should return the product to the place of purchase for a full refund.
For further information please contact:
Kenilworth Dairies
07 5446 0144
info@kenilworthdairies.com.au
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Tunis/Tunisia — A 800-tonne shipment of imported white rice, nearly half of which is contaminated with aflatoxins, is still stored separately in warehouses of the Tunisian Commerce Office (French: OCT), CEO Elyes Ben Ameur told TAP on Wednesday. Another shipment of 600 tonnes is being checked.
The value of imported shipments amounts to 1.5 million dinars. Ben Ameur said the OCT became aware of the contamination in early 2021 after a self-monitoring operation.
Aflatoxins are mycotoxins produced by certain fungi that proliferate in particular on seeds stored in hot and conditions. They are highly carcinogenic.
South Korea’s drug safety agency said Thursday that the number of food poisoning cases in South Korea declined sharply last year, falling to about a half of the annual average for the previous five years, with the number of food poisoning patients more than halving.
The number of food poisoning cases occurring last year in the country stood at 178, which is equivalent to 52 percent of the annual average of 343 cases for the previous five years from 2015 to 2015, according to the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety.
Accordingly, the number of food poisoning patients also dropped to 2,747 last year, a level that is equivalent to 40 percent of the annual average of 6,874 for the previous five years.
The number of food poisoning patients per 1 million people stood at 139 in 2016, 109 in 2017, 222 in 2018, 79 in 2019 and 53 in 2020.
The numbers of both cases and patients marked the lowest the ministry has ever seen during the entire period that it has been collecting relevant data, since 2002.
The ministry attributed the decline in both food poisoning cases and patients to the sharp decrease in the number of group meal programs, including school meals, due to the outbreak of the coronavirus.
Kareem Mart of Garden City, Michigan is recalling Kareem Chef Tahina because it may be contaminated with Salmonella bacteria. No illnesses have been reported to date to the company in connection with this problem.
