Careful with that cannoli; Australian salmonella sick now at 73; custard at retail tests positive

Posted: February 9th, 2011 - 1:06pm by Doug Powell

Thirteen more people have tested positive for a strain of salmonella linked to custard-filled cakes.

Health authorities will interview each of them to determine whether they had consumed any of the products linked to the current outbreak.

Vili's custard berliners and St George Cakes & Gelati custard eclairs and cannolis were withdrawn from sale last Friday, after SA Health established they were the common denominator in 60 salmonella cases.

At least 29 of those cases had required hospital treatment.

The 13 new cases would have been sick before the public health warning was issued on Friday but test results were completed today.

SA Health also has confirmed that two custard-filled product samples from St George Cakes & Gelati, purchased at retail stores, have tested positive for Salmonella Typhimurium phage type 9, which is the strain found in the current outbreak.

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Tags: Australia, cannoli, food safety, Pastry, salmonella

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Natania De Ionno says:

My Nonno(now deceased) and father have been running St George Cakes and Gelati for over 40 years, it is sad to see people judging and assuming that it was our products that have been contaminated. When reports were issued on the internet and news, nothing had been confirmed. The two products that were found with traces of salmonella were found at a retail level, which indicates that the products were not stored in the correct temperatures. St George Cakes premises has been tested many times and nothing has been found. There are more than 12 lines of Custard products that St George produces, if there was a problem, thousands of people would be sick, yet this isn't the case. The people that were sick had bought the products from a supermarket. The cakes are out of our hands after this. Although we do trust our retailers to store them correctly. I find it very sad that after 40 years, something like this has happened and people simply assume before anything was confirmed. This has simply broken our company and my Nonno's dream of St George Cakes and Gelati to live on. Our cakes are absolutely fine to eat and I personally do miss seeing hundreds of people everyday coming in for a Cannoli or Eclair.

Posted on April 12th, 2011 - 7:53pm

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