Singapore's Prima Deli cakes cause of food poisoning? What's the Cause?!
This bacteria causes fever, diarrhoea, vomitting and abdominal pain. These symptoms are seen usually six to 72 hours after the cakes were ingested. The food poisoning lasts usually from four to seven days and has no other long-term effects on most victims.
Answers: http://sg.news.yahoo.com/cna/20071207/ta... Prima Deli cakes are affirmed to be the cause of food poisoning suffered by 109 victims (reported) since as early as 23 November. Six have been hospitalised but are now discharged. Victims have been tested to be infected with the bacteria called Salmonella Enteriditis.
This bacteria causes fever, diarrhoea, vomitting and abdominal pain. These symptoms are seen usually six to 72 hours after the cakes were ingested. The food poisoning lasts usually from four to seven days and has no other long-term effects on most victims.
(I had posted answer to such question before)
Read “Prima Deli chocolate cakes likely cause of food poisoning” on Channel NewsAsia.
Associate Professor Dale Fisher, a senior consultant from the National University Hospital’s division of infectious diseases, was cited as saying that PrimaDeli cakes, could have been contaminated by eggs or dairy cream laced with bacteria, or, bacteria-carrying food handlers may not have washed their hands properly after hitting the loo.
In the book titled "Food Revolution", John Robbins revealed that many dangerous bacteria and viruses come from meat and poultry. In recent years, there have been reports around the world of animal-transmitted diseases like the mad cow disease, outbreaks of diseases in pigs and chicken, hoof and mouth diseases, and many other food poisoning cases originating from animals and chicken. 70% of the pigs slaughtered for consumption have pneumonia. Bacteria (such as Salmonella, E. coli, Campylobacter, helobacter) contained in infected animal meat has caused many people to fall ill or die. For example, the campylobacter bacteria is the main culprit of poisoning cases in the U.S. Everyday, about 5000 people have food poisoning, and more than 750 people die every year from food poisoning. 70% of chickens are infected with the Campylobacter bacteria. Every year, 650,000 people fall ill from eating eggs infected with the Salmonella bacteria, and 600 people die from it. Every day, 200 people fall ill daily from food poisoning associated with the E. coli bacteria 0157:H7, and some will die from it. Survivors generally develop other serious ailments. In the U.S. and Canada, children with weak kidneys mainly suffer from the Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome. 85% of them get this illness because of infection by the E. coli bacteria 0157:H7. There are 25 such cases every year in the Netherlands, and 7,500 cases in the U.S. Beef is the major ingredient in American hamburgers, and 50% of cattle carcasses are infected with the E. coli 0157:H7 bacteria. It is estimated that the U.S. has about 20 million to 80 million cases of food poisoning every year, although these figures likely underestimate actual numbers because many cases go undiagnosed. Perhaps, on average, a person gets food poisoning at least once a year. Factory-style methods of breeding animals put animals in tiny cages where they cannot move, or even see daylight in their entire lives. These animals feed on food containing chemicals, genetically-modified products mixed with manure, left-over meat from carcasses in abattoirs, along with growth hormones and antibiotics to make them grow faster. These conditions are ideal for the breeding of bacteria and viruses. In the U.S., the quantity of antibiotics consumed annually by humans is 3 million pounds, while the corresponding amount used for animal breeding (and not for medical purposes) is 24.6 million pounds! This situation has resulted in many bacteria strains being resistant to higher-dosage, more potent antibiotics (100 times that used 35 years ago). As a result many forms of pneumonia, meningitis, and typhoid cases are now incurable. This has prompted the World Health Organization, in 1997, to appeal to meat producers to stop routinely feed antibiotics to animals.
SARS and Avian Flue is now the focus of media, but it is only the tip of the iceberg, and many serious cases remain unreported. Howard Lyman, a cattle rancher turned vegetarian, predicted a few years ago that in a decade's time (five years remaining now), the mad cow disease will become so rampant that AIDS will seem as minor as having the common cold. That’s one reason why few devoted association like PETA condemn the animal testing, while focusing more towards the “root”-Animal Rights & Welfare.
Wanna see more about food poisoning, 99% are related to animals, or contaminated from animals.
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dbmd/diseasein...
The cost to the nation of food poisoning totaled 5-6 billion dollars in 1992, based only on food-borne cases from four bacterial and three parasitic species. E. coli O157:H7 illness alone costs up to $580 million annually. In 2006 alone, the world had spent about USD6 billion to curb poultries infected by Avian Flu (H5N1).
AGENTS :
In addition to Salmonella, recent outbreaks involved Campylobacter, Clostridium perfringens or C. botulinum, Staphylococcus aureus, E. coli, Shigella, Vibrio cholera, G. lamblia, Trichinella, Hepatitis A, and seafood toxins. The rate of food poisoning is much lower in the U. S. than in underdeveloped countries, where significant illnesses and death occur.
Sometimes I pity those vegetarians merely do not have any “rights” to inquire how their income tax money is distributed to cushion the livestock industries and “high cost” incur by eating meat.
Worldwide top 10 reasons for indigenous food-bourne disease and burden caused by meat and their by-product.
This is gov’t CDC report, read page 367, 368, 369
http://birdflubook.org/resources/adak365...
http://www.cabicompendium.org/ahpc/help/...
This should be reported, if it hasn't already been reported, to CASE to prevent further incidences.
Tip: Never buy cakes with cream after 3pm
Bacteria grows very rapidly in cream pastry after just a few hours of exposure to 18*C
I have had food poisoning twice at Newton Seafood. Never eat there again.