Further 16 tons of offal in bad condition and without respecting the cold chain, they were seized in the north-west of the capital of Santa Fe. The shipment was transported in a refrigerated truck and five people were delayed.
The procedure was carried out just a week after a health alert was triggered after two men from Berazategui died after consuming meat and offal contaminated with Shigella and Salmonella, bacteria found during an autopsy.
In this context, the personnel of the Institutional Security Guard (GSI) and of the Food Safety area of the Municipality of Santa Fe, with the collaboration of the Provincial Police, intervened on Tuesday afternoon during the unloading 16,340 kilos of offal, without respecting the relative protocols.
“It all stems from a phone call from a neighbor at 0800 from the Municipality, where it is stated that a large truck was unloading goods that could be entrails or offal onto a small car. The neighbor also lodges a complaint with the nearest police station”. said the Secretary of Control of the Municipality of Santa Fe, Fernando Peverengo, speaking with Santa Fe air.
After receiving this notice, the authorities went to the intersection of Gorostiaga and Europa streets, between Blas Parera and Circunvalación avenues, and confirmed that “the truck was not authorized to circulate with that goods“, nor the utility where they were unloading the large bins full of offal. According to the local press, there was a bad smell and flies in the food.
While, they delayed five people: the driver of the refrigerated truck and the four people who were on board the Renault Kangoo van. After a series of questions, they were released.
“By order of the Public Prosecutor’s Office, the seizure of the material was resolved which ended up being taken to the sanitary landfill during the night. Talk about a load of 16,340 kilos of offal who came from the north of the province and who apparently they were going to the city of Rosario, according to the information provided by the driver. Part of the cargo was lowered into the city of Santa Fe,” Peverengo explained.
Just three days earlier the municipality had seized 100 kilos of meat and offal due to lack of cold and hygiene in a butcher’s shop in the Esmeralda district. The locals also did not have a contract with waste haulers or pest control.
The deaths in Berazategui that sparked caution around the achuras
Two men in Berazategui died after consuming meat in poor condition: shigella and salmonella detected. Due to these cases of contaminated meat, the municipal authorities closed the butcher shop that sold the offal.
According to police sources, the victims were 36 and 48 years old. And there were five days of difference between one case and another. The first occurred on January 12 and the second on the 17th. Both were treated at that city’s Evita Pueblo hospital in the southeast suburb.
“Both were hospitalized with diarrhea and vomiting, with subsequent unfavorable evolution,” they specified from the hospital.
Based on these cases, an investigation was launched in which it was confirmed that the victims had consumed infected meat and offal in the days preceding the onset of symptoms.
Shigella and salmonella were found in both cultures: bacteria usually found in the intestines of infected people and transmitted through the ingestion of contaminated food or water from an infected person.
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Source: Clarin
