FSAI Information Note No. 4 - Hepatitis A Virus in Imported Frozen Berries
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The Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) in collaboration with the Health Protection Surveillance Centre (HPSC), the Health Service Executive (HSE), the National Virus Reference Laboratory (NVRL) and the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM) is investigating a national foodborne outbreak of Hepatitis A virus (genotype IA). The strain of the virus in Ireland is the same as that causing an outbreak in Italy which has been linked to mixed frozen imported berries. Recently, the Netherlands and France have reported cases of the same strain.
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تاریخ انتشار 2013