Hepatitis A warning issued on frozen berries sold here.

Captain Don Thorpe

dastardly00 wrote: »

I'm just from the Bargain Alerts thread about berries in which
Cavey contacted Dunnes Stores asking them if their frozen berries were imported or not.

Does that mean frozen blueberries are safe to eat?

dastardly00

Captain Don Thorpe wrote: »

Does that mean frozen blueberries are safe to eat?

Safe to eat because they are from North America?

It's worth reading the info in this link on the FSAI website. In relation to the Hep-A outbreak, it states that:

This work involved collecting data on the source of each berry delivery from retail sale back to the farmer to see if a common source or sources of contamination could be identified. Bulgarian blackberries and Polish redcurrants were identified as the most common ingredient in the food consumed by affected people. However, this might be explained by the fact that Poland is the largest producer of redcurrants in Europe, and Bulgaria is a major exporter of frozen blackberries. While no single point source of contamination was identified, twelve food operators were identified with links to cases and batches in five of the countries affected.

That study concluded that the country of origin for the contamination in raspberries and blackberries was not able to be identified.

But what about blueberries?

I don't know if people have been directly affected from eating frozen blueberries only. Also I don't know if many countries other than North America export frozen blueberries. Also if they are the largest exporter then that will complicate things further.

It's not clear-cut unfortunately.

rubadub

rubadub wrote: »

I was saying before this issue might be ongoing for years, until the stuff in deep storage is all used up.

With reports of 40 year old frozen meat been sold in China it could be a very very long time.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2015/06/24/china-smuggled-frozen-meat-40-years-old/29208679/