Four poisoned at restaurant
Staff at a Christchurch restaurant are being given instructions in food handling after four members of a Christchurch family suffered food poisoning there last week. The Health Department’s Medical Officer of Health (Dr L. F. Jepson) said last evening that the four were poisoned after eating a meat dish.
The poisoning was probably salmonella, but the department had been unable to isolate the organism. The meat was probably contaminated in the restaurant’s kitchen, he said.
This was not the first instance of food poisoning from this restaurant this year. There had been several others, Dr Jepson said, but he could not remember exactly how many. Nor could he name the restaurant.
He said that the department was now giving the restaurant staff instructions in food handling. Two other cases of suspected notifiable infectious diseases were reported to the department last week. One was infectious hepatitis, and the other meningcoccal meningitis.
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