
The National Food Authority has issued an official announcement regarding the analyses of food products taken from kindergarten No. 1 in the city of Gramsh and the supplier in Tirana, where 17 children from a state-run kindergarten were poisoned with salmonella.
The AKU says that analyses of milk, eggs and chicken thighs came out clean and free of the presence of salmonella.
NFA announcement:
In the context of transparency, the National Food Authority continues to follow legal procedures and inform the public, regarding the samples taken from raw food products at the kindergarten No. 1 in the city of Gramsh and at the supplier in Tirana, which were sent for analysis for the Salmonella spp indicator at the Reference Laboratory at ISUV.
We inform you that the samples sent for analysis for the raw milk and chicken thigh products, sampled by DRAKU Elbasan, as well as the milk, chicken thigh, and egg products sampled by DRAKU Tirana, have resulted clean for the Salmonella spp indicator.
While for the egg product sampled by DRAKU Elbasan and chicken thigh sampled by DRAKU Tirana, the analysis is still in process.
As soon as we have this information, AKU will continue with further informing the public.