A dirty kitchen appliance used to blend and puree food has been blamed as the source of a salmonella outbreak at the Burnside War Memorial Hospital in Adelaide's eastern suburbs.
To date 16 people have become ill with a gastric illness.
"This is a very important time to give a warning out to all South Australians, but especially those in commercial kitchens, to make sure that their mixers are able to be properly cleaned, that there isn't food residue building up in parts of the mixer that can't be accessed." SA Health Minister Jack Snelling .
All food service businesses that prepare food using a blender, juicer, or vitamiser need to ensure the equipment is dismantled fully, and each part is cleaned, to be visibly clean, then sanitised by heat or  a chemical sanitiser.
Source ABC www.abc.net.au/news/2015-09-28/salmonella-outbreak-blamed-on-stab-mixer/6809610

New South Wales Health reports over 40 people had gone to hospital since Saturday after consuming food believed to be from the Box Village Bakery, Sylvania NSW. One consumer had a emergency caesarean, giving birth to a baby 5 weeks early.  An area of St George hospital needed to be cordoned off to cope with the influx of chronically ill patients with acute gastro. The bakery will remain closed until an investigation into the incident is completed by the NSW Food Authority.
Information about food poisoning is available on the NSW Food Authority Website.
http://www.foodauthority.nsw.gov.au/fp/food-poisoning with a fact sheet on Salmonella available from NSW Health able to be downloaded here.
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Patties Foods have extended the recall of frozen berry products.The affected products are:

• Nanna’s brand Mixed Frozen Berries – 1kg plastic bags all ‘best before’ dates up to and including 22 November 2016
• Creative Gourmet Creative Gourmet Mixed Berries, 300g, frozen in plastic bag, all batches up to and including 'Best Before' 10 December 2017 
• Creative Gourmet Mixed Berries, 500g, frozen in plastic bag, all batches to and including 'Best Before' 6 October 2017
• Nanna’s brand Raspberries, frozen, in 1kg plastic bag, all 'best before' dates up to and including 15 September 2016

State and Federal food safety and health agencies are working together as part of the national response to the hepatitis A health scare and recent food safety incident in Australia.Up to 18 cases across Australia have been reported to be linked with consuming frozen berries imported from China. Hepatitis A virus infection can take between 15 to 50 days to develop following exposure to the virus. The recalled berry products should not be consumed.

Further information is available from  the State health / food authorities or from http://www.health.gov.au/internet/main/publishing.nsf/Content/ohp-hep-A-fact-sheet-consumers-frozen-berry.htm

A national food manufacturer and distributor is conducting a national recall of frozen berries, with a warning of Hepatitus A contamination. The company has had to enact its recall and crisis management procedures to manage this food safety incident.
Up to 18 people have been reported to have contracted Hepatitus A from the product. Concerned consumers should contact Patties Foods.
Contact Correct Food Systems to ensure you have recall and crisis management procedures in place to  ensure you manage any food safety incident that may occur, in a timely responsive manner.