Toxic tuna from Sydney cafe recalled
     NEWS.com.au
     February 26, 2015

A TINNED tuna product mainly used by caterers has been recalled after four people suffered potentially fatal food poisoning from a Sydney CBD cafe.   

JOHN Bull Tuna Chunky Style in Sunflower Oil was recalled by the NSW Food Authority following an investigation into the cafe, Soul Origin.
The tuna, which is imported from Thailand by a Victorian company, is mostly used as a catering product and isn't generally available to the public.

Four customers showed symptoms of Scombroid poisoning after eating a tuna salad from the cafe on Monday. 

The symptoms included skin rashes, dizziness, tingling in the mouth and nausea.   

The cafe, which insists it meets the highest hygiene standards, says it has changed its brand of tuna since the customers fell ill.

The NSW Food Authority says the cafe has stopped serving tinned tuna.

So far, the four incidents appear to be isolated.

The Food Authority says the incorrect temperature at the storing or processing stage when the fish was caught could have caused the tuna to become toxic.

Scombroid was linked to the death last year of Queensland mother and daughter Noelene and Yvana Bischoff, just hours after they ate contaminated fish at a restaurant in Bali.

The Sydney cafe episode follows a hepatitis A scare involving frozen berries imported from China. 

Eighteen people have so far been diagnosed with hepatitis A linked to the berries, a week after a nationwide recall was issued for a range of products.   

AUSVEG chief executive Richard Mulcahy said more tuna products sold in Australia should be sourced locally.

"We've got a big tuna industry in South Australia," he told Fairfax Radio.

"Possibly some of these manufacturers who haven't been very supportive of what we're doing are just looking at the bottom line and saying `well, we can buy it from Asia. It's cheaper'."

I only buy fresh tuna labelled as being caught in Australian waters. The weakening of AQIS is the reason for that—I rarely buy canned food and if I do (coconut milk for a curry, etc) I buy the most expensive brand especially if labelled “organic.”

Julius Abbott wrote on Feb 27^th, 2015 at 10:48am:



Why don't you delve into your trove of independent thought and see if you can come up with an answer?

Julius Abbott wrote on Feb 27^th, 2015 at 10:48am:


It's called competition.  I know that is a dirty word for you Leftheads.

If you don't like it, don't buy it? Simple.