Officials conduct city-wide checks to ensure safety for sushi

[rooster59]

Officials conduct city-wide checks to ensure safety for sushi

BANGKOK: All district offices in Bangkok were instructed by the Health Office of Bangkok Metropolitan Administration to take samples of sushi from Japanese restaurants from sushi bars for examination to find out if any of them are contaminated with diseases.

Mr Kowit Yongvanichchit, deputy director of the Health Office, said that the sushi tests followed complaints from several consumers that they suffered food poisoning after eating sushi at restaurants in Yan Nawa district.

He noted that sushi and sashimi were often found to have problem associated with cleanliness during the processing period for instances the hands of the sushi makers are dirty, improper transportation during which the fish might be contaminated or the fish were not kept in freezing temperature.

He cited sushi which are put on sale at markets are most vulnerable to contamination.

Meanwhile, Mrs Wanporn Srilert, director of Food Hygiene Office, said that examination of the Japanese food at a restaurant suspected to have caused health problem to consumers showed that the problem originated from the foreign fish supplier.

However, she said that the restaurant had already changed the supplier and there is now no problem of contaminated sushi.

As a precaution, she said that restaurants had been advised to store fish in temperature below 4C and sushi should not be displayed for more than four hours and cooks should undergo training on cleanliness and hygiene.

Source: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/content/148809

-- Thai PBS 2016-01-30

[PatOngo]

......meanwhile, roadside somtam vendors assure the public that carbon monoxide is harmless....

[rhythmworx]

"Meanwhile, Mrs Wanporn Srilert, director of Food Hygiene Office, said that examination of the Japanese food at a restaurant suspected to have caused health problem to consumers showed that the problem originated from the foreign fish supplier.

The pressing question is though, will it affect tourism?

Only foreign fish can go off or be contaminated.

No liver flikes on our fish in Khon Kaen.

[jaywalker]

Amazingly enough, the only time I ever got food poisoning in Thailand was from McDonald's.

My wife and I had both eaten the exact same things that day, except I ate two cheeseburgers from McDonald's.

I got violently ill for a day. She was fine.

Edited January 29, 2016 by jaywalker

[Thian]

On the market around the corner they also sell sushi with raw fish. Don't think i have ever seen coolers or any hygiene there.

[NongKhaiKid]

I take it the samples will be subject to a laboratory examination and not a ' taste test ' in the officials' offices over a beer.

Edited January 29, 2016 by NongKhaiKid

[thesetat2013]

Meanwhile vendors will be asking the gov for subsidies and discounts so they can all buy freezers since almost all of them do not. Also they will be wanting the gov to buy up all sushi not sold after the 4 hours. Meanwhile, envelopes will change hands and samples will get lost or will not be checked accidentally.

[Bluespunk]

"Meanwhile, Mrs Wanporn Srilert, director of Food Hygiene Office, said that examination of the Japanese food at a restaurant suspected to have caused health problem to consumers showed that the problem originated from the foreign fish supplier."

Those pesky foreigners again, eh.

[Pib]

These checks are just a way to get free sushi for govt officials. The govt is still deciding on what food item to check next month as they are still waiting on survey results from govt officials.

[eliotness]

I don't suppose they will be checking them for heavy metal content. Remember the Mercury problem in Japan.

[Fookhaht]

Amazingly enough, the only time I ever got food poisoning in Thailand was from McDonald's.

My wife and I had both eaten the exact same things that day, except I ate two cheeseburgers from McDonald's.

I got violently ill for a day. She was fine.

Interestingly, my worst food poisoning case in Thailand followed a submarine sandwich at that famous American submarine sandwich chain in Thailand. Edited January 30, 2016 by Fookhaht

[SoFarAndNear]

......meanwhile, roadside somtam vendors assure the public that carbon monoxide is harmless....

Even worse are street vendors who sell Sushi. This stuff is so disgusting.....

[realenglish1]

This is a good thing

[ratcatcher]

Mrs Wanporn Srilert, director of Food Hygiene Office

"If you knew sushi like I know sushi,

Oh, oh oh what a meal"

[geisha]

I can't believe the food I see on sale here, even in well known malls, not only the markets. There is absolutely no hygiene, food lying around for hours on end , no refrigeration, raw fish and seafood left at room temperatures, and worse!!!outdoors !!! I think that only because the turnover is quite rapid that there aren't more people getting sick. The sushi counters are disgusting, not only are they not real sushi, but put on sale where everyone is breathing on them, no refrigeration and God only knows how they are fabricated !!!There is one quite well known restaurant near to where I live that has barbecue meat on sticks showcased in a glass window display with no cooler, every time I walk past and see the discoloured lumps of meat and wilting vegetables there makes me cringe!

[MaxLee]

Now it's the Sushi's fault for Thailand's latest outbreaks

[bark]

Amazingly enough, the only time I ever got food poisoning in Thailand was from McDonald's.

My wife and I had both eaten the exact same things that day, except I ate two cheeseburgers from McDonald's.

I got violently ill for a day. She was fine.

Did you ever stop to think that it wasn't McDonald's; but the 20 beer you drank with it !

[geisha]

I can't believe the food I see on sale here, even in well known malls, not only the markets. There is absolutely no hygiene, food lying around for hours on end , no refrigeration, raw fish and seafood left at room temperatures, and worse!!!outdoors !!! I think that only because the turnover is quite rapid that there aren't more people getting sick. The sushi counters are disgusting, not only are they not real sushi, but put on sale where everyone is breathing on them, no refrigeration and God only knows how they are fabricated !!!There is one quite well known restaurant near to where I live that has barbecue meat on sticks showcased in a glass window display with no cooler, every time I walk past and see the discoloured lumps of meat and wilting vegetables there makes me cringe!

[trainman34014]

Have these Morons ever been inside the kitchens of most Thai Restaurants ? The majority are in a disgusting state but as usual they pick on Foreign food suppliers to blame for food poisoning. May well be that some people get sick from eating Sushi but my money would be on more people getting sick from eating local food. Most people don't even report it as Thai's have a 'cannot complain' culture.

[retarius]

Thank god for this. I see this 'sushi' slavered with mayonnaise for sale on markets where they sit for hours in 35 degree heat, and I would be surprised if the unsold portion isn't up for sale the next day as throwing food away is a sin. I'll eat my sushi/sashimi made to order from a proper restaurant thank you.

[Mot Dang]

......meanwhile, roadside somtam vendors assure the public that carbon monoxide is harmless....

What ????????? Carbon monoxide poisoning of food, from passing cars ? I don't think so. More likely hydrocarbons and soot you must be thinking of.

I would be more worried about the bacterial bio-burden in the Pla Lah (home made fermented fish) and small crabs they pound up with the Som Tum. Have a walk up Soi 22 Sukhumvit and look at the number of Som Tum vendors that have their carts above open drains, all day. And then on rainy days there is the run off from umbrellas and roofs of adjacent bars that must add flavor to this sort after culinary delight.

I recently saw a Thai video on YouTube showing the Som Tum buyer watching parasitic works coming out of the crabs. Horrible. It was not identified which part of BKK the Som Tum came from.

[soalbundy]

Poor little Sushi, she ought to go home as soon as possible

[stoli]

If you have ever owned a restaurant and taken food safety courses, you would never eat any raw meat product anywhere, especially food that should refrigerated. Thais may have built in some immunities over generations, but Falangs have not, and will not live long enough to obtain those immunities, so why try? We in the west live longer today because of knowledge. Use what you have learned.

[lostmebike]

Countless times in malls up and down the country, gone for a pee and seen many, many food workers whether it be waiters or 'preparers' from the big, jap food restaurant chains not even wet their hands after using the toilet.

Soap!? What is that?

[gandalf12]

What about the people who drive up and down at the beach areas selling mussels, prawn etc? They drive all day and the sea food is in the sun. If that is going to be fresh then I believe in the tooth fairy.

[Thian]

Have these Morons ever been inside the kitchens of most Thai Restaurants ? The majority are in a disgusting state but as usual they pick on Foreign food suppliers to blame for food poisoning. May well be that some people get sick from eating Sushi but my money would be on more people getting sick from eating local food. Most people don't even report it as Thai's have a 'cannot complain' culture.

One day my mother was here, we brought them to a nice restaurant at the riverside.

When we walked from the parkinglot into the restaurant there was an open door where she saw a bicycle standing. She said, ohh so this is the shed for their bikes? But it was the kitchen where the chefs were cooking

Another day at samui my wife got very sick, went to the doctor and his WHOLE shop was full of condoms he was selling. He wanted my wife to get an infuse for 3 hours in the room nextdoor. We went into that room, there was a motorcycle, many full binbags and a chair where she had to sit....no thanks mate, we go to the hospital

[HerbalEd]

I once asked my old redneck uncle if he ate sushi. To which he replied: "I don't eat bait."

Many uninitiated mistakenly believe that all sushi is made from raw fish, whereas actually a lot of it is made from cooked fish, and not all sushi contains fish or any other seafood.

[Thian]

If you have ever owned a restaurant and taken food safety courses, you would never eat any raw meat product anywhere, especially food that should refrigerated. Thais may have built in some immunities over generations, but Falangs have not, and will not live long enough to obtain those immunities, so why try? We in the west live longer today because of knowledge. Use what you have learned.

I agree that that the Thai don't respect any safety/hygiene rule that we have in the West. But hey, this is Thailand.....We have nothing to say here and if we don't like it we are free to go elsewhere right?

But i don't agree that farang can't get immune to Thai food and all the impurity's it has or brings.

Myself i can eat almost everything from the local markets and won't get sick. In fact i've never been sick from eating anything in Thailand in more then a decade.

I even drank water from the tap in BKK for years and still do but now i have a filter with UV.

Also i think in the West we are far too concerned about hygiene which causes us to be weak human beings, the Thai have a great resistance against all the bacterials living here. Also i don't understand why (especially older) farang all want to come here and eat thai food. They don't have that resistance and will get sick.

I see farang whining about a lettuce leaf on a sandwhich sold in Yamazaki and because of that they won't buy it. Or they won't eat from the salad bar in Sizzlers. What they don't understand is that thai pick their nose all day long and then touch everything in the city. Or they sneeze and continue doing their job, wherever that might be.

I think farang should stop cleaning their house with chlorine every week and build some immunities. Japanese live longer then farang and that's because they eat a lot of seafood and raw eggs and so on. They are also very hygienic though but i still wonder why we have sooo many rules about food in Europe while it only creates weak people.

Edited January 30, 2016 by Thian

[metisdead]

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[Ks45672]

Amazingly enough, the only time I ever got food poisoning in Thailand was from McDonald's.

My wife and I had both eaten the exact same things that day, except I ate two cheeseburgers from McDonald's.

I got violently ill for a day. She was fine.

Interestingly, my worst food poisoning case in Thailand followed a submarine sandwich at that famous American submarine sandwich chain in Thailand.

Me and the wife have also been sick after eating subway...

Funny enough I can't recall ever having been poisoned by a street food seller... Even the most basic guys cooking things with a fire at the side of the road....