A total of about 1,900 people, including elementary and junior high school students who drank milk for school lunches in Toyama City in June, complained of symptoms such as diarrhea and abdominal pain. I made it clear.
Since June 17, in Toyama City, a total of about 1,900 people, including elementary and junior high school students and children in daycare facilities, have complained of symptoms such as diarrhea and abdominal pain. I decided to investigate in detail.
The public health center held an expert meeting on the 28th and reported on the investigation status of the cause conducted by the National Institute of Health Sciences and others.
The meeting was held privately, but after the attendance of the prefectural medical association chairman Daisuke Mase, the cause of food poisoning was that the types of Escherichia coli detected in the patient's stool and milk matched according to the interview. It was revealed that there was a report from the health center that it was presumed to be E. coli.
Whether or not the causative E. coli is pathogenic will continue to be investigated by the National Institute of Health Sciences and others.
According to the health center, two days before the outbreak of food poisoning, there was a lightning strike in the area around "Uchida Dairy Industry" in Toyama City, where the milk was produced, and the temperature sensor of the sterilizer broke down, so the milk could not be sterilized sufficiently. That seems to be the main cause.
"Uchida Dairy" repaired the temperature sensor, and after that, coliforms were not detected in milk, so the public health center said that the ban on business that had been issued to "Uchida Dairy" would be lifted in early August. I am.