Kobe: Incident of food poisoning from a meal containing raw chicken

Press Release (April 4, 2024)
Food Hygiene Division, Health Department

Overview

On Wednesday, March 27, 2024, a representative of the group reported that “four of our friends from school days ate at a restaurant called Jidori-ya Sumikori in Chuo-ku on Wednesday, March 20, and three of them have been suffering from fever, diarrhea and other symptoms since Friday, March 22.

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The Eastern Sanitation Surveillance Office of the city’s Public Health Center received a report to the effect that “three people had fever, diarrhea, and other symptoms since Friday, March 22.
As a result of the investigation, it was found that four out of the four members of one group who used the facility on March 20 (Wednesday) had symptoms such as diarrhea, fever, and abdominal pain since March 22 (Friday).

Since there was no common meal other than the one served at the facility, Campylobacter was detected in three patient stool samples, the symptoms were similar to those of Campylobacter food poisoning, and the doctor who examined the patients reported the food poisoning, the director of the Kobe City Public Health Center has determined that the food poisoning was caused by the meal served at the facility. The director of the Kobe City Public Health Center determined that the food poisoning was caused by food served at the facility, and ordered the facility to suspend operations for three days from April 4 (Saturday) to April 6 (Saturday).

All patients are recovering well.

It is not true that “fresh food is safe even if it is raw!

Eating chicken raw or undercooked can cause food poisoning and is dangerous!

The

establishment that caused the

illness Business

type Restaurant business

Trade name Jidoriya Tankei

Business name

Keiichi Oh

buchi Business address KSM Bldg. 3F, 2-11-1 Shimoyamate-dori, Chuo-ku, Kobe City

Meal that

caused

the

illness Meal containing chicken nameko and chicken sashimi

served

at the above-mentioned establishment on March 20 (Wednesday)

Date:

Wednesday, March 20

Date of onset:

Friday, March 22, 7:00 a.m. (first patient)

Main symptoms

: diarrhea, fever, abdominal pain

Patients

:

4 (4 females, 20s

) Address: outside city Total: 4 (2 from Himeji, 1 from Aichi, 1 from Osaka)

Main contents

:

chicken nameko, chicken sashimi, fried chicken, egg on rice, cheese ball

Campylobacter

Food poisoning due to

Campylobacter

• Bacterial food poisoning is on the increase nationwide, partly due to the impact of the shift of new corona infections to category 5.
• Food poisoning caused by Campylobacter is the top bacterial food poisoning that occurred in the last year in Japan. The main cause is consumption of chicken in the form of tataki or sashimi.
• To prevent food poisoning caused by Campylobacter, avoid eating meat products in the form of chicken tataki or sashimi.