Taiwan’s Far Eastern Department Store in Taipei City, well-known Malaysian vegetarian restaurant “Pauline Tea Room Xinyi A13” suspected outbreak of large-scale food poisoning, has received nine cases, including one death, two people in critical condition. Doctors said that the deadly culprit is feared to be “rice enzyme bacterial acid”, as long as 1mg can cause people to die.
As of Tuesday evening, the suspected food poisoning case has accumulated nine cases, including hospital notification of six cases, as well as the people themselves, three cases, most people have eaten “fried kuey teow”, in addition to the death of a man, there are still two people in the intensive care unit in the first aid with the Yeke membrane.
According to the United Press, a doctor suspected that a series of cases are afraid of rice enzyme bacterial acid, as long as 1mg of toxin can be easily fatal, the source of improperly preserved rice products such as rice noodles. Because of the rice enzyme bacterial acid is not a pathogen, after the test feces may not be detected.
Yan Zonghai, director of the Clinical Toxicology Center at Linkou Changgeng Hospital, said that kuey teow, vanilla leaves are considered common food, so the situation is indeed rare, but the patient died and the cause of food poisoning, are still to be investigated by the health unit, the health unit and the hospital will do bacterial cultures, it is not appropriate to jump to conclusions, but the general food poisoning is acute gastroenteritis, symptoms include nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, diarrhea, fever and other localized symptoms. The symptoms include nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, diarrhea, fever and other local symptoms.
Yan Zonghai reminded, regardless of meat or vegetarian food, improper preservation may be contaminated, so all need to do a good job of proper preservation, the public to eat outside, pay attention to the restaurant cleanliness and other hygiene conditions; restaurant operators should be in the preparation of the meal, will be raw and cooked foods are handled separately, if the food is placed at room temperature, but also as soon as possible to eat, eat not to be placed in the refrigerator.
Mildew acids are not common in Taiwan, but there have been many major cases in China, such as the “sour soup poisoning” incident in Heilongjiang Province in October 2020, which resulted in the death of 9 out of 12 people in a family that ate it; in July 2023, there were also two women in Henan Province who ate spoiled cold skin, resulting in mildew acid poisoning, with one dead and one injured in a tragic accident. The tragedy.
