進口中國食用海膽細菌超出標準

Last month the Mainichi News on-line reported the following

腸炎ビブリオ菌:基準値の１４倍、中国産生食用ウニから

毎日新聞　2012年10月02日　23時25分

　横浜市は２日、同市神奈川区の食品輸入会社「泰星物産」が輸入した中国産の生食用ウニから、少なくとも基準値の１４倍に上る腸炎ビブリオ菌が検出されたと発表した。検査した厚生労働省から同日連絡があった。横浜市は食品衛生法に基づき、同社に回収命令を出した。

　同市によると、生食用ウニは９月２６日に中国から約８１６キロ輸入され、翌２７日に東京、神奈川、埼玉、宮城、千葉、愛知の１都５県の水産卸売り計９社に販売されたという。うち約７００キロは東京の３社に販売された。

　腸炎ビブリオ菌は海水中に存在する食中毒菌で、人体に入ると激しい腹痛や下痢などの症状が出る。７５度で１分間加熱すると死滅する。横浜市には２日現在、このウニによる健康被害の届け出はないという。

(試譯文)

On the 2^nd (last month) Yokohama announced that the vibrio-parahemolytica bacillus as least 14 times above the safety standard was detected in the raw edible sea urchin imported from China by a food importing company "Taixing Product" at the city's Kanagawa district. The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare which performed inspection was contacted on the same day, Yokohama gave the company the order to recall based on Food Sanitation Laws.

According to the city 816 kg of raw edible sea urchins were imported from China on September 26, on the next day on the 27^th all were sold to nine fishery wholesale companies in Tokyo, Kanagawa, Saitama, Miyagi, Chiba, and Aichi, i.e. the capital and five prefectures. About 700 kg were sold to three companies in Tokyo.

Vibrio-parahemolytica bacillus was  food poisoning bacillus which existed in all sea water, and if it went into a human body, conditions such as an intense stomachache and diarrhea would appear. It could become extinct if it was heated for 1 minute at 75 degrees. At Yokohama on the 2nd, it was said that currently there was no notification of health impairment caused by this sea urchin.

So, the raw edible sea urchin served in restaurants in Japan may not be harvested locally.