Four-year-old among 46 hospitalised after eating bread from bakery in Vietnam

https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/four-year-old-among-46-hospitalised-after-eating-bread-from-vietnam-bakery

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grue@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 119d (7 replies)

How bad do you have to fuck up to get people sick from bread?!

SkyeLight@piefed.social · 10 pts · 119d

Ergot poisoning (aka, St Anthony's fire) has been a recurrent issue since people started eating rye and similar grains. I wouldn't be surprised if there was a similar issue with other grains.

That said, they didn't say what type of breads were affected, nor did they say whether the poisoning was natural, carelessness, or intentional :(

PainInTheAES@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 119d (1 reply)

Raw flour actually has a lot of the e coli issues

grue@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 119d

Okay, but bread is supposed to be baked!

I mean, with meat and dairy and fruits and vegetables there are always situations where it might be legitimate to have them be eaten raw or only partially cooked, but that's not a thing for bread!

NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 119d (1 reply)

I tried to look it up, but they dont know yet.

But this sentence caught my eye

"Salmonella has been identified as the culprit in other recent Vietnamese bread-related food poisoning incidents (e.g., in Vung Tau and Nghe An province), this has not been confirmed as the cause in this specific Quang Tri outbreak."

I wasn't expecting to read that!

iturnedintoanewt@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 119d

Bread is commonly used in a salad-sandwich-kinda dish called bahn mi. I reckon any of the other uncooked ingredients?

Noodle07@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 119d

*laughs as the scourge"

Legianus@programming.dev · 2 pts · 119d

::: spoiler Tap for spoiler The introductory plot of the Last of US TV Show :::

AmidFuror@fedia.io · 5 pts · 119d

Bahn mi gone wrong.