There are 4 confirmed circumstances and two suspects in a number of autonomous communities. The want to strengthen early detection within the occasion of the looks of latest circumstances has been transferred to public well being companies
The Food Safety Agency (AESAN) is investigating circumstances of botulism related to the consumption of packaged potato tortillas bought in several supermarkets. The Public Health Alert System has notified 4 confirmed circumstances of botulism and a couple of possible ones.
The circumstances have occurred in a number of autonomous communities and the general public well being companies of the autonomous communities and cities have been knowledgeable to strengthen early detection within the occasion of the looks of latest circumstances with suspicion of botulism, ought to they happen.
In at the very least three of the confirmed circumstances and in one of many possible ones, the corporate that makes the tortillas is similar. To date, it has not been potential to ascertain proof, neither within the merchandise nor within the processes, that relates trigger and impact. However, investigations proceed with the collaboration of the manufacturing firm.
Investigations are being carried out in relation to the chance that there’s a product available on the market that’s not protected or if there are deviations within the manufacturing, distribution, storage or transport processes that justify the existence of this threat.
The AESAN cites the case of the Ahorramas grocery store chain, which, making use of the precautionary precept and within the absence of certainty, has determined to withdraw from sale the merchandise to which the epidemiological surveys have pointed, pending the progress of the investigations.
“We need to remind shoppers of the significance, better at the moment of 12 months because of the warmth, of preserving meals merchandise on the storage temperatures indicated on the label and following the directions to be used indicated by the producers, since they assure the protection of the merchandise for which an expiration date is established”, recall from AESAN, which warns that packaged potato tortillas may give a “false sensation that they’re like preserves, that they’ve thermal stability, and maintain them with out refrigeration on the present ambient temperature can result in well being issues after consumption”.
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