Patties Foods recall frozen berries after Hepatitis A contamination. ight people have now contracted the virus after eating frozen mixed berries, including three cases in Victoria, two in NSW, and the three Queensland cases reported on Monday. A ninth person, also from Queensland, has tested positive to the virus but the state’s health department says [...]
The Federal Department of Agriculture has written to Chinese authorities demanding assurances that measures are in place to prevent further contamination of frozen berries. More than a dozen people across Australia have so far been infected with hepatitis A after eating frozen berries sourced from China. The latest confirmed case was in WA and was [...]
Poor hygiene amongst Chinese workers as well as potentially contaminated water supplies in China are thought to be the likely causes of an outbreak of hepatitis A in Australia, linked to imported frozen berries. Nine people — three in Victoria, four in Queensland and two in New South Wales — have become sick with hepatitis [...]
