Following stories of incidents of meals poisoning recorded in some major faculties within the Emilia-Romagna area collaborating within the “Fruit and greens in faculties” programme, the possible hyperlink with the consumption of cherry tomatoes emerged. The rapid suspension of the administration of the product was requested and the competent providers of the Public Health Departments of the native well being authorities involved, together with Modena, carried out the suitable checks, together with sampling of the cherry tomatoes.
The samples have been delivered to the Zooprophylactic Institute of Lombardy and Emilia-Romagna and to the ARPAE laboratory in Ferrara for finishing up a broad spectrum of analysis. From the outcomes of laboratory analyzes it emerged that No toxins of bacterial origin have been current within the tomatoesFurthermore the values referring to different attainable chemical contaminants have been discovered to be regular resembling copper and different metals, sulphur, histamine and plant safety merchandise. Other analyzes are underway geared toward discovering substances naturally current in tomato crops and fruits which could possibly be associated to the incidents which have occurred.
It must be remembered that the youngsters within the Modena faculties topic to the ASL’s epidemiological investigation, for a complete of 4 establishments, have been 132, plus 7 academics; all had developed largely gentle gastrointestinal signs.
[16 maggio 2024]