On Friday about 10 people were hospitalized (and discharged on the same day) at the Tropea hospital, for food poisoning: they had ate fish products at a restaurant in Capo Vaticano. And upon reporting of the carabinieri of the Spilinga station, the ASP intervened: the foods were seized and then be analyzed; Insights still in progress also on the sampling of water performed yesterday: it should be remembered that the order of non -potability throughout the territory of Ricadi is still in force.
On the investigations, Giuseppe Barbieri, Director of the Operational Hygiene of Food and Nutrition Unit is directly engaged and, regardless of the present case, in the face of the order for the prohibition of potability, it is present, so much to the directly concerned operator (to which NDC has been prescribed) as well as to colleagues restaurateurs “who must intensify the frequency of the samples in self -control; Even if, independently, they should provide drinking water ». Despite the difficulties related to the deficiency of staff, the unit directed by Barbieri immediately used and support the military of Spilinga.
Sunday the restaurant was operational again, having not received restrictions. However, the staff, on social media, had immediately informed customers of the extraordinary closure and on the controls “overcome without any irregularities”, reassuring the traceability and conservation of raw materials. “One of the aspects currently under observation by the health entities is the possible contamination” of drinking water “due to water disservices in the municipal network, a problem outside our control”.