 |  | ST PHOTO: Owner of Indian Rojak Store. |
The case of the fresh salad mixed(rojak) gets dragged into court soon. It started last week when the effects of the food poisoning started making the patrons who ate from the stores show all the classic signs of Vibrio parahaemolyticus poisoning. A few hours later, when the food packet were consumed at home, the affected patients started crowding the local hospital. It was realised that all originated from the Indian rojak. All ate or partake of the same food item. The figures finally added up. Two later went into Coma and dies. 150 more were sickens.Below the full report.
THE owner of the Indian rojak stall at the centre of Singapore's worst case of mass food poisoning will be taken to court by the authorities.
In a statement on Tuesday night, the Health Ministry and NEA said Mr Sheik Allaudin Mohideen's licence will be suspended pending court action.
The food poisoning outbreak that occured two weeks ago struck 154 people after they ate Indian rojak from his stall located at the Geylang Serai Temporary Market.
It also resulted in two deaths.
The cause: Vibrio parahaemolyticus bacteria, a common cause of food poisoning associated with the consumption of raw or partially cooked seafood.
It was found in 13 cases, including the first death.
On the key question - how the outbreak was caused? - there remains no definitive answer.
Both agencies said that since all the food had been dumped they had had to infer what had happened by comparison with a case from 1983.
The similar outbreak, involving 34 cases, was traced to the consumption of Indian Rojak from a market stall also at Geylang Serai.
The food was prepared at an unlicensed premise at Joo Chiat, where drippings from raw cuttlefish were found to have contaminated the rojak gravy in uncovered containers on the lower shelves of a refrigerator. See story below.
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