Fears contaminated food served on Virgin Blue flights- Listeria
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Fears contaminated food served on Virgin Blue flights- Listeria
Ex the Courier Mail site 08:39 AEST- 5 Aug 09 (the typo I'll leave unchanged as a monument to the journo):
Fears contanimated food served on Virgin Blue flights
Article from: AAP
August 05, 2009 08:39pm
VIRGIN Blue says it is working with Queensland Health in relation to fears passengers may have been exposed to potentially deadly bacteria in chicken wraps.
The investigation is confined to a supply of chicken wraps the airline received from a manufacturer between May and June 2009, which may have contained a bacteria known as Listeria.
A Virgin Blue spokeswoman said it is believed that other southeast Queensland companies were also provided with the chicken wraps from the manufacturer.
She said the affected chicken wraps were supplied to customers on flights along the east coast of Australia, to New Zealand and Bali.
"It appears the likely source of the contamination was an ingredient supplied to the manufacturers of the wraps and not Virgin Blue or other companies who received the affected products," she said.
Virgin Blue removed the product from service at the end of June.
As a precautionary measure, the airline is helping Queensland Health remind people of the risks associated with Listeria, including a 70-day incubation period during which someone who eats the contaminated food may become ill.
"While, it is uncommon and causes few symptoms, if any, in healthy people, Listeria can be potentially harmful to pregnant women and people with suppressed immunity," she said.
According to the Victorian Government website, Listeria has a fatality rate as high as 30 per cent amongst at-risk people, which include the elderly, pregnant women, babies and those with weakened immune systems.
The company says the investigation is ongoing.
Article from: AAP
August 05, 2009 08:39pm
VIRGIN Blue says it is working with Queensland Health in relation to fears passengers may have been exposed to potentially deadly bacteria in chicken wraps.
The investigation is confined to a supply of chicken wraps the airline received from a manufacturer between May and June 2009, which may have contained a bacteria known as Listeria.
A Virgin Blue spokeswoman said it is believed that other southeast Queensland companies were also provided with the chicken wraps from the manufacturer.
She said the affected chicken wraps were supplied to customers on flights along the east coast of Australia, to New Zealand and Bali.
"It appears the likely source of the contamination was an ingredient supplied to the manufacturers of the wraps and not Virgin Blue or other companies who received the affected products," she said.
Virgin Blue removed the product from service at the end of June.
As a precautionary measure, the airline is helping Queensland Health remind people of the risks associated with Listeria, including a 70-day incubation period during which someone who eats the contaminated food may become ill.
"While, it is uncommon and causes few symptoms, if any, in healthy people, Listeria can be potentially harmful to pregnant women and people with suppressed immunity," she said.
According to the Victorian Government website, Listeria has a fatality rate as high as 30 per cent amongst at-risk people, which include the elderly, pregnant women, babies and those with weakened immune systems.
The company says the investigation is ongoing.
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When getting sick from airline food is something new please tell me about it!! After 15 years whether your a pax or up the front it doesnt matter its always a risk when you eat it.. 
Dry Ice is used, however rarely are the carts kept at a sufficiently acceptable temperature.
Perth and Darwin and Melbourne are well known to hardly ever have dry ice, and the melbourne caterers look at you like you are asking for their first born if you dare ask for more (thats if they bother to turn up at all).
Effectively, an aircraft could go BNE-CNS-MEL-PER-BME-PER-BNE and only get 'iced' in Brisbane (the ice is usually good for 2-3hours). Far fetched - not at all.
I was quite unpopular with the Development Managers when I would regularly 'write off' entire perishable stocks if we were not supplied with ice. (Record was 52 sandwiches/wraps on a BME return).
Was bound to happen eventually. Although the article says they removed the product from service? Um, no they didnt?
Perth and Darwin and Melbourne are well known to hardly ever have dry ice, and the melbourne caterers look at you like you are asking for their first born if you dare ask for more (thats if they bother to turn up at all).
Effectively, an aircraft could go BNE-CNS-MEL-PER-BME-PER-BNE and only get 'iced' in Brisbane (the ice is usually good for 2-3hours). Far fetched - not at all.
I was quite unpopular with the Development Managers when I would regularly 'write off' entire perishable stocks if we were not supplied with ice. (Record was 52 sandwiches/wraps on a BME return).
Was bound to happen eventually. Although the article says they removed the product from service? Um, no they didnt?
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I notice PMs wife Therese Rein was admitted to hospital in CNS with stomach pains...PM thinks there may be a causal relationship between his speeches and his wifes illness. And she wouldn't eat a chicken wrap...
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thanks ozangel - confirms the info
Also was told crew meals are stored the same way - and even sometimes being loaded many hours before, inc dairy and pre-cooked stuff for long sectors .............no wonder Dj people all carry those little cooler bags and their own food?
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Also was told crew meals are stored the same way - and even sometimes being loaded many hours before, inc dairy and pre-cooked stuff for long sectors .............no wonder Dj people all carry those little cooler bags and their own food?
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Virgin Blue listeria link found
It was-
Ozangel- a disturbing account, it's to the grace of God that the 2 children arrived as well as they did- (a timely alert to procedures/systemic weakness and quality assurance, as opposed to "it all ended well, move on....."- only my opinion of course).
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Ex the Courier Mail website:
Ozangel- a disturbing account, it's to the grace of God that the 2 children arrived as well as they did- (a timely alert to procedures/systemic weakness and quality assurance, as opposed to "it all ended well, move on....."- only my opinion of course).
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Ex the Courier Mail website:
Virgin Blue listeria link found
Article from: AAP
August 19, 2009 02:13pm
A LISTERIA outbreak on Virgin Blue flights that forced two pregnant women into premature labour has been traced back to diced chicken from a Wollongong food company.
GMI Food Wholesalers Pty Ltd, trading as Australian Poultry and Food Wholesalers, has been prohibited from producing the chicken product or any other ready-to-eat meats, the NSW government said.
Seven people, including two pregnant woman, contracted listeriosis, a bacterial infection, after eating chicken wraps on Brisbane-based Virgin Blue flights in May and June.
The women gave birth prematurely, but both delivered health babies.
NSW Primary Industries Minister Ian Macdonald said tests by the NSW Food Authority and Queensland authorities linked the diced chicken back to the Virgin Blue supplier.
"Laboratory analysis finalised this week confirms the link that listeria bacteria consumed by passengers on the Virgin Blue flights originated in the chicken processed at the Wollongong-based plant," Mr Macdonald said.
"The prohibition order means the company is forbidden from producing or selling the implicated chicken product and any other ready-to-eat meats manufactured at the premises. This order will remain in place until further notice."
The contaminated chicken that was sent to Queensland has been located and removed, Mr Macdonald said.
Listeria can have an incubation period of more than two months and produces vomiting, nausea, stomach cramps, diarrhoea and severe headaches.
Article from: AAP
August 19, 2009 02:13pm
A LISTERIA outbreak on Virgin Blue flights that forced two pregnant women into premature labour has been traced back to diced chicken from a Wollongong food company.
GMI Food Wholesalers Pty Ltd, trading as Australian Poultry and Food Wholesalers, has been prohibited from producing the chicken product or any other ready-to-eat meats, the NSW government said.
Seven people, including two pregnant woman, contracted listeriosis, a bacterial infection, after eating chicken wraps on Brisbane-based Virgin Blue flights in May and June.
The women gave birth prematurely, but both delivered health babies.
NSW Primary Industries Minister Ian Macdonald said tests by the NSW Food Authority and Queensland authorities linked the diced chicken back to the Virgin Blue supplier.
"Laboratory analysis finalised this week confirms the link that listeria bacteria consumed by passengers on the Virgin Blue flights originated in the chicken processed at the Wollongong-based plant," Mr Macdonald said.
"The prohibition order means the company is forbidden from producing or selling the implicated chicken product and any other ready-to-eat meats manufactured at the premises. This order will remain in place until further notice."
The contaminated chicken that was sent to Queensland has been located and removed, Mr Macdonald said.
Listeria can have an incubation period of more than two months and produces vomiting, nausea, stomach cramps, diarrhoea and severe headaches.
