SA: Victoria put on salmonella alert

AAP General News (Australia)
04-13-1999
SA: Victoria put on salmonella alert

Victorian health authorities have been put on alert after a South Australian packing shed
was banned from selling oranges because it tested positive to salmonella.

The South Australian Health Commission issued an order preventing Riverland packing shed
CONSTAS BROS and its supplying orchard from moving or selling oranges after salmonella was
found on the surface oranges.

SA Human Services Department spokesman BRENDON KEARNEY says the packing shed at Cooltong
had supplied oranges to Nippy's juice company.

Nippy's has been linked to a salmonella outbreak which struck down 486 people.

Professor KEARNEY says the packing shed also supplied fresh oranges to one outlet in
Victoria, and the Victorian Health Department has been notified and is investigating.







Further tests will determine if the salmonella found at the shed is the same strain as that
linked to the Nippy's outbreak.

Nippy's products went back on sale yesterday after the health commission lifted a second
ban on Friday on the condition that the company pasteurise all of the products.

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KEYWORD: SALMONELLA (ADELAIDE)

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