Salmonella scare over, say safety chiefs

FOOD safety chiefs believe the salmonella scare that affected nine countries which were supplied with meats from an Irish plant may be over.

One more case of the disease was confirmed in recent days — a patient in Austria — but that individual was ill three weeks ago and there have been no new suspect cases reported since then.

The Austria case brings to 145 the number confirmed to have been affected by the outbreak of salmonella agona, a rare form of the familiar salmonella bug which was traced to the Dawn Farm Foods plant in Naas, Co Kildare.