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Japan – 14 children in Japan sent to hospital in suspected mass food poisoning

Posted on August 11, 2022 by | Leave a comment

Mainichi

Fourteen members of a children’s club were taken to hospital on Aug. 9 during a visit to a swimming pool in Sammu, Chiba Prefecture, in a suspected case of mass food poisoning.

Chiba Prefectural Police’s Sammu Police Station explained that about 50 children were on the children’s club visit to Hasunuma Water Garden in the city. At least 19 members began to complain that they felt sick about an hour after they ate lunch at around noon. They had eaten rice balls that had been made that morning. The rice balls were apparently not chilled after being made, leading police to suspect food poisoning.

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Italy – 17 Belgian boy scouts suffer food poisoning in Monza

Posted on August 10, 2022 by | Leave a comment

ANSA

ROME, AUG 8 – Some 17 Belgian boy scouts suffered food poisoning after eating fish in a restaurant in Monza Saturday night, the Eco di Bergamo newspaper reported Monday.
The youths, aged 12 to 20, all from Antwerp, had symptoms including fainting, vomiting, dizziness and pallor, and were taken from the iconic Bergamo Alta (Upper Bergamo), where they had travelled Sunday morning, to three hospitals in the Lombardy city.
They said their symptoms had already presented on the coach from Monza to Bergamo. (ANSA).

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India – 40 students fall sick after mid-day meal in AP

Posted on July 28, 2022 by | Leave a comment

New Indian Express

KURNOOL: As many as 40 students of a Mandal Parishad upper primary school fell sick after reportedly eating mid-day meal on Tuesday. The school is located at Chakrala village in Pathikonda mandal of Kurnool district.All the students were immediately admitted to the Pathikonda government hospital, where the condition of five was stated to be critical.

According to reports, the authorised agency served mid-day meal to the students as usual in the afternoon. Out of the total strength of 220, 160 students had their lunch at the school. Later, they developed stomach ache, vomiting and motions.

Samples of water and food were collected for lab testing.

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India – Karnataka: 40 students fall sick after eating midday meal

Posted on July 25, 2022 by | Leave a comment

India Express

Forty students of Government Higher Primary School in Gollarahatti, in Chitradurga district, fell sick and 26 of them had to be hospitalised after eating the midday meal served at the school on Thursday afternoon.

Doddappa MC, headmaster of the school, said, “On Thursday afternoon I received calls from villagers and teachers who complained that students are falling unconscious and are vomiting. By the time I reached the school, some students had been admitted to the hospital. However, all students are okay.”

He added that food samples have been sent to the laboratory to ascertain if it was a case of food poisoning.

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India – 11-year-old dies, 4 others ill after taking food at Madrasa

Posted on July 18, 2022 by | Leave a comment

New Indian Express

GUNTUR: A 11-year-old boy died of suspected food poisoning and four other children were hospitalised after reportedly having breakfast served at a madrasa in Palnadu district on Saturday. Police said as many as 18 boys were studying at the Islamia Nurul Huda madrasa in Gurazala.

Gurazala Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Jayaram said preliminary investigation revealed that the boys had consumed food that was brought to the madrasa by a local resident, Hafeez, who had held a house-warming ceremony on Friday night. “The five boys ate the leftover food on Saturday morning and took ill after a couple of hours. Initially, we suspected that the roselle used in the food was not properly cleaned, and had pesticide residue,’’ he said. Hafeez is a pesticide dealer.

The body of the deceased was sent to hospital for post-mortem, police said, adding the cause of the death could be ascertained after getting the autopsy report.

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India – 15 students fall ill after suspected food poisoning in UP residential school

Posted on July 5, 2022 by | Leave a comment

India Tv News

Food poisoning in school: At least 15 girl students of a residential school in Uttar Pradesh’s Saharanpur district were admitted to a community health centre following complaints of vomiting and uneasiness, a senior official said on Monday.

The incident took place on Sunday at the Kasturba Gandhi Residential School in Mehngi village, District Magistrate Akhilesh Singh said. Among the 15, condition of three was stated to be serious, he said, adding prima facie it appears to be a case of food poisoning.

A magisterial probe has been ordered into the matter by Additional District Magistrate, Administration, Chief Medical Officer and district basic education officer. The team of officers will give their report within 48 hours, the DM said.

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India – 120 students taken ill after food poisoning at Siddipet

Posted on June 29, 2022 by | Leave a comment

The Hindu

As many as 120 students studying in the minority residential girls high school at Siddipet took ill on Monday evening. Many of them were shifted to the government hospital where they are undergoing treatment.

According to sources, after having lunch in the afternoon, some students started vomiting and had loose motions. For some time the issue was kept a secret and they tried to hush it up. However, as the situation went out of control, the students were shifted to government hospital for treatment.

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France – Sardine fillet – Histamine

Posted on June 28, 2022 by | Leave a comment

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Identification information of the recalled product

  • Product category Feed
  • Product subcategory Fishery and aquaculture products
  • Product brand name flag of france
  • Model names or references French flag sardine fillet
  • Identification of products
    GTIN Batch Date
    204388000007 43160601959 Use-by date 06/23/2022
  • Packaging UVCM
  • Marketing start/end date From 06/17/2022 to 06/23/2022
  • Storage temperature Product to be stored in the refrigerator
  • Health mark UVCM
  • Further information UVCM
  • Geographic area of ​​sale Whole France
  • Distributors glazed hyper u store

Practical information regarding the recall

  • Reason for recall histamine levels higher than the norm
  • Risks incurred by the consumer Other biological contaminants
  • Additional description of the risk Histamine food poisoning appears between 30 minutes and a few hours after consumption of the incriminating food and leads to an acute allergy.

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China – 200 kindergarten children suffered symptoms of food poisoning, parents want investigation

Posted on June 27, 2022 by | Leave a comment

The BL

According to a report by China Economic Weekly on June 24, nearly 200 children at the “Jiedibao Wanke Golden Joy City Kindergarten” in Xi’an, Shaanxi Province, suffered symptoms of food poisoning on June 17 and needed medical attention. Some remained hospitalized for a week.

As reported by Chinanews.com, a Lianhu District Education Bureau staff member said that the illness was initially determined to be caused by a salmonella infection but should await official confirmation.

According to Wang, a parent of one child, more than 200 children at Jiedibao Wanke Kindergarten developed different degrees of food poisoning. The symptoms were high fever, nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, and diarrhea. In the most severe cases, blood in the stool and coma.

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Research – June is peak time for Campylobacter food poisoning; chlorinated chicken will not help

Posted on June 24, 2022 by | Leave a comment

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Around 3,500 Brits are hospitalised every year with campylobacteriosis – food poisoning caused by Campylobacter contamination. It causes the greatest number of hospitalisations of any food-borne disease in the UK and is the number one cause of bacterial food poisoning. Yet, despite falling Campylobacter levels on chicken over the past five years, levels of illness have not changed. An expert review of the sources, spread and control of Campylobacter from the Oxford Martin School at the University of Oxford concludes today that further interventions are needed – but no one solution will provide perfect control.

Led by Professor Matthew Goddard from the University of Lincoln and published earlier this month in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B, the restatement clarifies the scientific evidence available from a variety of sources in order to better inform policy decisions and provide clarity on the broad scientific consensus. This is vital as the prevalence of antibiotic resistant Campylobacter is increasing in the UK and has been designated a ‘high priority’ pathogen by the WHO.

Key conclusions of the restatement include that there was no clear evidence that long-term use of chlorine rinses, as practised in the USA, lowered levels of the bacteria or food poisoning caused, and that a broader series of control measures had strong evidence for its overall effectiveness as a package.

The UK’s poultry industry has successfully reduced the quantity of retail chicken testing positive for Campylobacter from 73% in 2014 to 40% in 2018. However, cases of illness have not reduced over the same period. In addition to wider control measures, beef, lamb and pork need to be more widely understood to be carriers of the bacteria and potential causes of food poisoning.

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