Food contamination incident in bakery outlet

Singapore: Thirty-nine PrimaDeli restaurants had to be closed in Singapore, after 109 people fell sick with salmonella poisoning in the worst food contamination incident in recent times there. First indications pointed to the hazelnut cream used in some cakes. Two of the workers in the bakery have tested positive for the same salmonella enteritidis bacteria that had been found in those hospitalized; although they had not developed symptoms. As all the cakes are baked at high temperature, this would have killed the bacteria; but hazelnut cream is not subjected to this process.

Source: Straits Times, 6 December 2007
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