JOE:
MAKE POKE.
THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT ANNOUNCED
THIS
AFTERNOON, THE TAINTED PRODUCT
WAS SOLD AT
PAST WEEKEND.
BRIGETTE NAMATA JOINS US WITH
MORE. BRIGETTE?
ANOTHER
HEPATITIS-A SCARE, WE WENT
STRAIGHT TO THE
BRANCH, AND WERE TOLD THIS CASE
OF HEP-A DIFFERS FROM LAST
YEAR'S HEP-A OUTBREAK BECAUSE
THE SOURCE OF
THE TAINTED FISH WAS DISCOVERED
QUICKLY
AT THE FOLLOWING TIMES
SUPERMARKETS AND
Waimanalo
TIMES IMMEDIATELY SHUT DOWN ITS
SEAFOOD
disposed of all the product in
our seafood dept. that was
entire dept as a precautionary
measure
THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT SAYS THE
FROZEN AHI
store at 205 Lewers Street.
TAINTED CASES OF FROZEN AHI
CUBES. EACH CASE WAS
RECOVERED, AND
NEVER GOT SOLD.
distribution, but unfortunately
that did not happen with this
procedures to ensure this will
not happen again. I want to
personally apologize to our
HAWAII FOR CONDUCTING ITS OWN
QUALITY
CONTROL TESTING, AND FOR
INFORMING HEALTH
in place where they actually
segregated lots of their
shipments they get in from
indonesia
PETER OSHIRO, HEALTH DEPT: so
we again the main
eating foods raw or undercooked
then you are at
a greater risk to contract food
borne illnesses
BRIGETTE:
WILL BE TRACKED.
JOE:
IT WAS JUST LAST AUGUST, WHEN
THE
HEALTH DEPARTMENT IDENTIFIED RAW
SCALLOPS
SERVED AT GENKI SUSHI
RESTAURANTS AS THE
FROM THE PHILIPPINES...IT WAS
DISTRIBUTED BY
THE OUTBREAK
JOE:
SINCE HEPATITIS A HAS A LONG
LAST HEP-A
OUTBREAK, BUT REMEMBER..YOU NEED
TWO DOSES, 6 MONTHS APART.
CHILDREN ARE ROUTINELY
VACCINATED BETWEEN
JOE:
ALWAYS INVESTIGATING HAS BEEN
KEEPING TABS
ON FOOD-SAFETY FLAWS WITH
IMPORTED SEAFOOD,
SINCE THE HEPATITIS A OUTBREAK
LAST YEAR.
BY F-D-A INSPECTORS NEARLY 60
TIMES ALREADY
FEDERAL
AGENCY REVEALS HUNDREDS OF
CATCHES
LIKE THIS EVERY YEAR, WITH
UNSAFE TUNA
ACCOUNTING FOR THE VAST MAJORITY
OF
SEAFOOD IS INSPECTED BY THE U.S.
FOOD AND
JOE:
AND WE'LL ALSO BE ASKING MORE
QUESTIONS
ABOUT HOW THIS HAPPENED AGAIN,
AND
OF THIS LATEST HEPATITIS-A
SCARE.