Between ten and twelve the number of intoxicated from mandrake, one of which is severe and with pneumonia, atPozzuoli hospital, where from yesterday Thursday 6 October 2022, after news of the first poisonings, a real one broke out psychosis from fresh spinach.
After theassociation Nobody Touches Hippocrates, also City of Naples he warned consumers, urging them to do not consume fresh spinach and to prefer frozen ones until the emergency is over.
Do not consume fresh spinach, only frozen
City of Naples
La mandrake, sold as fresh spinach, apparently would have come fromAbruzzo, more precisely from the Marsica, and would then be distributed to all supermarkets in the Campania region (including those of Marina di Procida and Quarto) from the CAAN of Volla, the agri-food center owned by the municipality of Naples.
This is stated by Fanpage in an in-depth article on the origins of the mandrake.
The operator from which the suspected batch of poisoned spinach originated has been identified
Il CAAN of Volla, in a note sent to the press, he has already made it known that he is managed to identify the Abruzzo operator from which the mandrake started, then sold as spinach, and to have started one large-scale withdrawal campaign from all Campania supermarkets.
The agri-food center does not rule out that there may have been other cases of intoxication in addition to the 10 ascertained and that, of these, many they may not have gone to the ER because they suffer from mild symptoms.
Joining the appeals already launched by the mayors of the Neapolitan area and also of Salerno, the CAAN also invited consumers, as a precaution, a do not consume fresh spinach, as one is sufficient small contamination by mandrake to a batch of "good" fresh spinach to develop symptoms of poisoning.
How are the intoxicated?
Apart from the 46enne, who is still hospitalized in prognosis reserved for the San Giuliano di Giugliano hospital, the other intoxicated are in way for improvement.
Among these there is also a 85enne, Whose conditions no longer cause concern.
Symptoms found in intoxicated ones are the most common from mandrake poisoning and they range from gastroenteritis ai severe abdominal and intestinal pain, passing through the vomiting, loss of consciousness, the slip and hallucinations.
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