Four Australians poisoned by Thai tuna
Xinhua, February 26, 2015 Adjust font size:
Food authorities are on Thursday investigating a second outbreak of food poisoning in Australia in as many weeks.
Four people fell ill with a form of food poisoning called Scombroid which is potentially fatal.
They contracted the illness after eating tuna salad from a central Sydney cafe on Monday.
The cafe's customers suffered symptoms including skin rashes, dizziness, tingling in the mouth and nausea, News Corporation reported.
The cafe has now changed brands of tuna.
Health experts said the poisoning most likely resulted from poor temperature control or other mishandling in Thailand. The cafe said it met the highest hygiene standards.
Scombroid was linked to the death of an Australian mother and daughter hours after they consumed contaminated fish at a restaurant in Bali.
The incident follows last week's news of an outbreak of 18 cases of hepatitis A linked to frozen berries from two processing plants in China. Endi