Russia issues a health advisory on ready-to-eat salads

 

On Monday authorities said at least 139 people have recently sought medical help for botulism symptoms that are possibly linked to ready-to-eat salads 

According to Deputy Mayor Anastasia Lakova. In Nizhny Novgorod, a city 400 kilometers east of Moscow,  nine people visited medical facilities with suspected botulism,  nine of them in serious condition.

 In  another city, Kazan, six people were hospitalized with symptoms of botulism.

 Some of the cases have been linked by health authorities to two brands of ready-to-eat salads.

 Russia's public health agency Rospotrebnadzor suspended such food chains on Saturday, the day the first cases of poisoning occurred.