ABC News reports an outbreak of salmonella linked to a bakery in Sydney’s west is being investigated by the State Government’s public health unit.
Almost 120 people have sought help, suffering from gastroenteritis after eating takeaway food from a bakery at Bankstown.
Twenty-two of those have been admitted to hospital for treatment.
The bakery has now been closed until further noticed.
Why not name the bakery so previous inspections can be checked on the government’s name-and-shame website?
By bakery, the Brits mean deli-style, with cold-cuts, meat pies, and more of the traditional sources of E coli O157 other than bread.
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Nine adults who bought food from a bakery in Gateshead have been confirmed as having the O157 strain of the infection, with a further six people currently undergoing tests.
The Health Protection Agency (HPA) said two people were receiving hospital treatment, with the remainder recovering at home.
Health officials on Tyneside are investigating seven confirmed and four possible cases of E.coli O157 infection in adults from the Gateshead area.
The Health Protection Agency (HPA) said six of those infected bought cooked meats or sandwiches from Myers bakery in Felling.
The owners have agreed to close the bakery pending further investigations.
A North Melbourne bakery riddled with cockroaches and mouse droppings that failed to comply with an order to clean the shop has been fined $7,000.
After an inspection in April last year that found a live mouse, cockroaches, moths, mouse droppings and dirty shelving and work benches, Queensberry Hot Bread’s owner Dino Primitivo did not comply with an order to clean the shop or deter pests, the Melbourne Magistrates Court heard yesterday.
Photographs tendered to the court showed a live mouse under shelves, clothing hung up to dry in front of an oven, cracked, broken and dirty work tools, benches and surfaces, and mouse droppings on the floor.
Magistrate Sue Wakeling told Primitivo,
"If you cannot offer food that is safe for consumption, you ought not to."
Some students groups are upset after the University of Nebraska at Omaha banned the sale of homemade baked goods on campus.
UNO officials said the ban was put in place due to concerns about food allergies and contaminated food, although there had been no reports of contamination.
While such bans, along with similar attempts to inspect church pot-lucks and other community-based initiatives may seem heavy-handed, the potential for sick people and subsequent liability cannot be ignored.
Anyone who serves, prepares or handles food, in a restaurant, nursing home, day care center, supermarket, local market or yes, even for a bake sale, needs some basic food safety training. And health inspectors are there to provide some minimal oversight.
The Edmonton Sun reports Adam Duerr got salmonella from his girlfriend.
An inspector with Capital Health visited Duerr while working at his food service gig at The Italian Bakery in April and told them Duerr could not return to work until getting two negative tests for the bacteria.
He went back to work anyway.
When confronted by a health inspector, Renato Frattin, an owner-manager of the bakery, told the inspector the worker wore oven mitts while removing loaves of bread from the oven and placing them on cooling racks.
Frattin and Duerr were both fined $1,150 in court yesterday after pleading to the same charge.
Yes, people will abuse the system, but sick employees should stay at home.