Bread business household in Gia Lai fined 100 million VND after food poisoning incident

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Gia Lai - In addition to administrative fines, the owner of the banh mi shop also has to remedy other consequences, costs of handling and treating food poisoning patients.

On the afternoon of September 17, Gia Lai Provincial People's Committee issued a decision to sanction administrative violations against Bin Bin business household (the legal representative is Mr. Nguyen Van Khanh, in An Khe ward).

Functional sectors determined that business households had a series of violations such as: storage area, warehouse, storage without full shelves, shelves, nameplates, regulations, procedures, and hygiene regimes.

Bread stalls do not have enough tools to store and use separately for fresh food and processed food; containing food on equipment, tools, and materials that do not ensure hygiene.

Breadshop producing, processing, supplying, and selling food causing food poisoning, affecting the health of 5 or more people without the level of criminal prosecution.

The Provincial People's Committee decided to impose a total fine of 100 million VND. At the same time, forcing business households to recall food, destroy unsafe food; forcing them to bear all costs for handling food poisoning, examination, and treatment of people with food poisoning.

As Lao Dong Newspaper reported, in the period from August 23 to August 24, 2026, An Khe Medical Center recorded many cases of people buying mixed bread at Bin Bin Business Household to use and showing signs of suspected poisoning.

Patients successively showed symptoms such as abdominal cramps, diarrhea, vomiting many times, fever and sporadically came to An Khe Medical Center for treatment.

A total of 254 patients came for examination and treatment with suspected food poisoning symptoms such as abdominal pain, vomiting, fatigue... By 1:00 PM on September 3, 2026, all 254/254 cases had been treated stably and discharged from the hospital, with no deaths recorded.

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