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On September 1, the Department of Food Safety sent an official dispatch to the Investigative Police Agency, Hanoi Police to investigate and handle the Minh Chay pate case from Alternative Living Two-Member Limited Company.
In the past, there has been food poisoning caused by botulinum toxin. Results of the determination of the cause of Clostridium botulinum bacteria in Minh Chay pate food products of Alternative Living Two-Member Limited Company (address in group 2, Dong Anh City, Dong Anh District, Hanoi). The consequences have caused poisoning in some people with serious and lasting damage.
Therefore, the Food Safety Department has dispatched a dispatch to the Investigative Police Agency, Hanoi Police to investigate, verify and handle the case in accordance with the law.
Pate Minh Chay is the cause of food poisoning caused by botulinum toxin. Image: Vans
The Department of Food Safety stated that since it received information about the case, with the opinion that people’s health is paramount, the Department has acted with a high sense of responsibility, drastically and in a timely manner in accordance with the law. law to handle the case.
Specifically, according to associate professor Dr. Nguyen Thanh Phong, director of the Department of Food Safety (Ministry of Health), on the afternoon of August 19, the Department of Food Safety received a phone call from the Poison Control Center, announced the Bach Mai Hospital. a couple of patients are being treated for surveillance for suspected botulinum poisoning. Through the Poison Control Center investigation, the previous two patients used Pate Minh Chay products from Alternative Living Two Members Co., Ltd., the last time they used them was in late July.
Immediately, on the same day of August 19, the Department issued an express dispatch requesting the Department of Food Safety and Hygiene of the city of Hanoi to coordinate with local authorities to investigate and verify the information.
On August 20, the inspection team of the Hanoi Food Safety and Hygiene Division inspected the production facilities of Alternative Living Two-Member Limited Company in Dong Anh City, Hanoi. Accordingly, this is a production facility managed and certified by the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (Hanoi Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Quality Control). products as of January 3, 2020.
However, at the time of the inspection, the company did not maintain sanitary conditions such as factory cleanliness, tool cleaning, drainage, etc. The inspection team assigned the Dong Anh District Health Department to suspend operations. production of the Company, required to overcome sanitary conditions, at the same time product samples were taken in the company and sent to the National Institute of Food Safety and Hygiene to carry out tests for the bacterium clostridium botulinum.
Also during this time, the National Institute for Food Safety and Hygiene received patient samples (patient feces) and unfinished pâté samples from patients who were being treated at the Bach Mai Hospital Poison Control Center.
On August 25, the National Institute for Food Safety and Hygiene announced that initial results from patient samples and the pâté box were positive for clostridium botulinum but atypical. The National Institute for Food Safety and Hygiene recommends adding cultivation time for accurate results.
With this initial result, both the technical, treatment and management agencies have confirmed insufficient reasons to conclude that the Clostridium botulinum infection in the Minh Chay pate product is due to the production process or also. process using. Therefore, the Department of Food Safety has asked the National Institute for Food Safety and Hygiene to test and return the results urgently as soon as possible for whole canned Minh Chay pâté products.
In the late afternoon of August 28, the Department received the test results from the Ho Chi Minh City Institute of Public Health and detected the bacteria clostridium botulinum in the Pate Minh Chay product. At the same time, at 6 pm on the same day, the Department also received a notification of the test results of the canned Minh Chay pâté product from the National Institute for Food Safety and Hygiene that also detected the bacterium clostridium botulinum.
“I immediately telephoned the Director of the Hanoi Department of Health to request an urgent meeting during the night. After hearing the reports and analysis of the test results of the two institutes, representatives of the units. has unanimously stated that the Pate Minh Chay products from Alternative Living Two Members Co., Ltd. were contaminated during the production and circulation process and were a source of infection with the Clostridium botulinum bacteria that caused intoxication to the patient “, Mr. Phong speak .
Therefore, on the morning of August 29, the Department issued an urgent notice requesting the withdrawal of Alternative Living Two-Member Co., Ltd. At the same time, the Department sends an official dispatch to the Department of Health, the Board of Food Safety Management of Bac Ninh, Da Nang, Ho Chi Minh City, Subdepartment of Food Safety and Hygiene in the cities and provinces affiliated to the center. review, monitor, recall products and advertise widely in the media so that people do not use Alternative Living Two Member Company products.
If the consumer has used the product with abnormal signs of health, he should immediately need a medical center to be examined.
Also on August 29, the Department also sent a letter to the Hanoi Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (the unit that manages food safety and hygiene for Alternative Living Two-Member Co., Ltd.) to continue to inspect and verify. Alternative Living Two-Member Limited Company violations and transfer to law enforcement agency to investigate criminal signs as prescribed.
Nam Phuong
