CFS 
Details of the products are as follows:
(1) Product name: Fuzizoue Preserved Tofu (Spicy)
Place of origin: Hong Kong
Package: 463 grams per bottle
Best before date: June 18, 2016
(2) Product name: Pearl River Bridge Chili Fermented Beancurd
Place of origin: China
Package: 325 grams per bottle
Best before date: November 24, 2016
Batch number: SZ 140235
The Fuzizoue Preserved Tofu sample was collected at a supermarket in Sha Tin for testing under CFS’ regular Food Surveillance Programme. Test result showed that the sample contained Bacillus cereus at a level of 1 300 000 per gram.
– The Pearl River Bridge Chili Fermented Beancurd sample, it was taken at the office of the importer/distributor of the product in question during CFS’ follow-up investigations into an unsatisfactory sample of the same kind of the product, but from a different batch, announced last month. Test result showed that the sample contained Bacillus cereus at a level of 280 000 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.
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