• Intoxication Blow by salmonellosis to Casa Dani: the family business that invoices four million a year in tortillas

  • Health Closed the Casa Dani restaurant in the Salamanca neighborhood due to food poisoning with 40 affected and several hospitalized

The Casa Dani restaurant has three locations in the Mercado de la Paz in the Madrid neighborhood of Salamanca.

The place located in the upper part of the enclosure was closed last Friday morning

when it was discovered that since Wednesday and Thursday there were several people intoxicated

from consuming some food in poor condition.

Several people assured this newspaper yesterday that

the famous tortillas

were still on sale at the restaurant in Lagasca on Saturday morning and that

when they ate them they also became intoxicated

.

One of them even

fainted on Monday morning

at home as a result of the inconvenience caused and another remains at home unable to move with diarrhea and a very high fever.

These victims do not understand how one of the premises was closed and the activity continued in another of them.

"On Saturday we went to the tortilla store and

they told us that a machine had broken

and that they would not fix it until Monday. They invited us to go down to the Lagasca store and we took the tortilla.

They knew since Thursday that something was wrong, but they sold tortillas until Saturday

," said Sonsoles, one of the many affected.

The Madrid City Council assures that the Lagasca restaurant has a separate kitchen from the one located in the upper part of the Mercado de la Paz, so it

was decided to maintain the business activity

because it was not suspected that it could also be affected by the salmonellosis.

The same sources,

acting as spokespersons for Casa Dani, defend that the activity in the other nearby business should continue

.

"Tortillas continued to be sold in the kitchens of restaurants that

were legitimized

by the health authorities," they say.

"

We began to find out about the infections on Thursday afternoon or Friday morning, but they were very few

and Sanidad allowed the commercial activity to continue in the other stores selling tortillas," they added.

In addition,

they argue "that no reckless action has been taken

. The health authorities allowed us to continue working in the other kitchen. To this day it is not known where the infection came from and the first restaurant was closed on our initiative."

All the kitchens and the premises have already been disinfected and are awaiting the results of the cultures, since analyzes of the facilities, the products and the workers themselves have been collected.

They insist that the kitchens of the other restaurant were not closed "because it was not prevented from stopping cooking. We are going to follow all the inspectors' guidelines. We will not open until the results of the crops are available.

As of today we do not know what has happened past or where it came from

."

The OCU (Organization of Consumers and Users) has explained that

those affected could request compensation

.

Those affected will have to allege the damage caused by the infection, such as having missed work or being hospitalized.

As explained yesterday by the Ministry of Health,

the number of those affected could already be around 50 people, five of them hospitalized

.

This calculation does not include the people affected who have not gone through the health center and hospitals of the Madrid public network.

The Casa Dani restaurant, with a turnover of more than 4 million a year thanks to its successful business selling tortillas, has made an email available to those affected and also ensures that it is in contact with several of them as they are regular customers. .

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