Posted on 09/05/2014 2:49:48 PM PDT by BenLurkin
NEWPORT BEACH (CBSLA.com) — Investigators with the Orange County Health Department were working Friday to determine what may have caused several people to get sick after eating at an upscale Newport Beach restaurant.
KNX 1070’s Ron Kilgore reports authorities say six diners came down with the intestinal bacteria Shigella after eating at the True Food
The self-billed healthy living restaurant was shut down on Aug. 28 for two days over what county inspectors labeled an “imminent health risk” due to at least one confirmed case of Shigella.
Following the closure, True Food reopened after the entire restaurant was sanitized and replacement staff were brought in from the chain’s other restaurants in Santa Monica and San Diego, The Orange County Register reported.
As part of the two-day sanitation effort, True Food was also required to trash all ready-to-eat foods and open beverage bottles and containers, according to The Register. Unsealed linens and ice were also required to be disposed of, The Register reported.
A routine inspection conducted June 9 showed a lack of unsanitary conditions, including evidence of “vermin activity”, improper food storage, and inadequate hygiene, according to an OC Health Department report.
In a statement released Friday, Anita Walker, a marketing executive for True Food parent company Fox Restaurant Concepts, said the 14-hour cleaning effort was “designed to ensure the safety of our restaurant and make us ever more vigilant about food safety.”
“We were able to react quickly and open again because we plan and practice for contingencies like this because any public setting where people gather can contribute to the spread of illness these days, including us, and our guests and employees health and welfare remain our top priority,” stated Walker.
Most people who become infected with Shigella develop diarrhea, fever, and stomach cramps starting a day or two after they are exposed to the bacteria, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC).
While an infection rarely requires hospitalization, children less than two years old who contract Shigella may develop a high fever with seizures, according to the CDC.
While test results are still pending, OC Public Health Medical Director Dr. Matt Zahn said there could be more than one possible cause.
“You look at food potential issues, you look at environment potential issues, you look at the possibility that there is one person or worker there who may be infected who may be passing that bacteria on to food and making people sick,” said Zahn.
Any customers of True Food who have concerns or questions were asked to call (844) 570-5555.
It really bothers me that $%^&*()! Vegans get to call their diet healthy.
So tha’s what happens to us every year at duck camp.
Shingella!
Wow.
I ate at a real nice place years ago there..
Oh well,, dirty hands haPPen.
From Google:
Shinella kummerowiae sp. nov., a symbiotic bacterium isolated from root nodules of the herbal legume Kummerowia stipulacea.
Bacterial strain CCBAU 25048(T) was isolated from root nodules of Kummerowia stipulacea grown in Shandong province of China.
From China, not surprising from the country that brought us leprosy and the Bubonic plague.
Wha ....????? Huh?
Illegal aliens are the source of this Anita honey-child. Until your state addresses the issue objectively, expect more illnesses and outbreaks at your Birkenstock-infested greasy spoon and other CA establishments.
Shigellosis is extremely uncomfortable - it’s dysentery. Usual vector is human fecal contamination. Wash yer hands, folks.
Had shigella once. I never want to run into it again.
I have a cousin who started vegetarian, then went vegan, now has added gluten-free. *shrug* I don’t care what people eat, or don’t, as long as they don’t preach about it (and she doesn’t). But the “raw diet” people.... yeah... that’s one I don’t understand aTall.
I lack unsanitary thoughts, therefore, my mind is pure.
If it was your top priority, it wouldn't have happened.
If that cousin is female and decides to get pregnant, she will guaranteed have a miserable pregnancy as her body takes all the things it needs to build that new person in the womb, from her body instead of from the food she ISN'T eating. If the baby makes it to term, it will be extremely underweight, and if she tries to feed that baby a vegan diet after weaning from breastmilk, the baby WILL DIE. It is acknowledged that the earliest that it is "safe" to wean a human child off of animal protein (including dairy) is the age of five or six.
And then -- look at them. Vegan children are typically listless and have deep gray circles under their eyes.
I speak from decades-long personal experience with assorted vegans.
Veganism is Darwinism in action. Veganism is for fools.
I caught that too.
EXACTLY. It’s what almost killed me almost forty years ago after having been invited to dine on one of the ME ships I worked for the company. Arab in the galley with filthy hands fixed the salads according to the doctors. It’s baaad stuff.
I look forward to the latest offerings on our cruise menu.
Will they have a Captains and a Moochelle’s recommended menu and the Chef’s menu to the side?
Maybe a low carbon diet offering.
KNock on wood, we have never gotten bit by norovirus or unclean conditions,but these days, ya NVR know.
I always eat muh meat well done.
>fixed the salads according to the doctors
what doctor would prescribe filthy hand salad?
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