Kobe City: Food Poisoning Incident Due to Chicken Stings

Press Release (March 9, 2025)
Food Hygiene Division, Health Department

Summary

On Wednesday, March 5, 2025, a citizen reported to the city’s Eastern Sanitation Surveillance Office that “on Friday, February 28, 16 of my colleagues at work went to a restaurant in Chuo-ku, and about half of them developed diarrhea and other symptoms.” The Eastern Sanitation Surveillance Office of the city’s Public Health Center received a report that “on Friday, February 28, 16 of my colleagues at work went to a restaurant in Chuo Ward.

As a result of the investigation, it was found that 10 out of a group of 16 who visited “Chicken Master Ginpachi” on February 28 (Friday) had symptoms of diarrhea, abdominal pain, fever, headache, etc. since March 1 (Saturday).

The director of the Kobe City Public Health Center concluded that the food poisoning was caused by the meals served at the facility, because all the patients had no common meals other than those served at the facility, Campylobacter was detected in four patient stool samples, the symptoms were similar to those of Campylobacter food poisoning, and a doctor who examined the patients reported the food poisoning. The director of the Kobe City Public Health Center determined that the food poisoning was caused by the food served at the facility and ordered the facility to suspend operations for three days from March 9 (Sunday) to March 11 (Tuesday).

All patients are recovering well.

Cause of the incident

Business type: Restaurant business

Name of business

: Torisho

Ginpachi Representative Director: Hiroshi Osaka

Location of business: 1-2-25, Furuminatodori 1-chome, Chuo-ku, Kobe City

Cause Meal

Meals including chicken sashimi served on Friday, February 28, 2012 at the restaurant that was the cause of the problem

Pathogen

Campylobacter

Date of consumption

Friday, February 28

Date of onset

Saturday, March 1, 8:00 a.m. (first patient)

Main symptoms

Diarrhea, abdominal pain, fever, headache, etc.

Patients

10 (1 male in his 20s, 9 females in their 20s to 50s),

by address: 6 in the city (1 in Higashinada-ku, 1 in Nada-ku, 2 in Chuo-ku, 1 in Suma-ku, 1 in Nishi-ku),

4 outside the city (3 in Hyogo Prefecture, 1 in Osaka Prefecture)

Main food items

Assorted chicken sashimi (thigh tataki, bone sashimi, chicken breast sashimi, chicken breast sashimi, chicken gizzard sashimi, chicken gizzard sashimi), kagoyaki (seseri, harami), 3 kinds of obanzai