It's never a cakewalk - how a meringue unravelled a food safety mystery

摘要

The life of a foodborne illness investigator is never dull, and for the small group who make up the NSW Food Authority's Food Incident Response and Complaints team, each year certainly brings its fair share of varied and complex cases.It was back in mid-2018 when reports of illness caused by salmonella Enteritidis first started to trickle in. By July 2018, with around 12 reported cases of people infected in NSW, authorities were able to determine there was a 'cluster' and commenced investigating the source.