Food Poisoning

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Seems like I've picked up whitefish food poisoning after having sligtly undercooked and warm Haddock yesterday evening. Rang the doc and he suggested I get Buscopan to relieve the stomach cramps. Dose is 2 tabs every 4 hours - I'm not able to hold anything down for long, and even though I've only had a few small sips of water - was sick after an hour of taking the pills.
Does anyone know if I should wait for the 4 hours to be up or could I try again when 3 hours are over?
Cheers

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Just an update - it was actually take 4 a day rather than 2 every 4 hours so it was OK to take another dose. I'm nopw much better - though at the time I thought I was dying !

Fast forward to to-day when I returned to the source of the dodgy Haddock and after I'd confirmed I'd spoken to the doctor, the produce manager wanted a stool sample to send to their Head Office for them to test. Fortunately I haven't been since Tuesday morning and before the onset of the stomach cramps ( mainly because I haven't eaten anything). I've now contacted their Head Office and have been asked to return the packaging with fish flakes inside it.

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TOV!E said:

Why send it back if you say YOU under cooked it.??????????

I didn't undercook it as such - I followed the instructions on the foil pack. A certain supermarket has decided to start doing bake in foil bags with 'special sauce/butter' of your choice. Pierce the foil in a few places, place in the oven @ 190 deg C for 15 mins. That's exactly what I did.
When I took it out, I noticed ( after a few mouthfuls) it wasn't hot enough and a quick knife in the middle of the loin showed it was still raw. I then transferred it to a plate and stuck a 'steamer' lid on top and nuked it in the microwave.
It was just a few mouthfuls that I had prior to the microwave that made me ill the following day.

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That wasn't on the foil pack - I think they've only just introduced this 'cook in foil with free flavoured butter pats' on the fresh fish counter as a feature. I have to point out that I only had about 2 to 3 mouthfuls before I realised there was a likely problem and moved the fish to the microwave steamer to cook it properly.

Upshot was I returned the original package with fish flakes inside to the store this afternoon, it was couriered to their Quality Control dept at Head Office in a refrigerated box. So credit to them for taking my report seriously...and hopefully preventing a similar situation. It will be 2 weeks before I hear anything back from them but will update this thread when I do.

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Just had a phone call from them - they said there wasn't enough of a sample for the lab to investigate.

There were quite a few flakes and I would have thought some analysis could be done - however, the case is now closed. Lessons learnt for the future - Don't buy fish on a Monday and wash all fish myself.

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I tend to agree with you - I thought there was plenty enough fish flakes to take samples from. Of course they don't want bad publicity, but I suspect they just dumped it in the rubbish bin without even checking it. I even doubt it was couriered to HO - there was probably a code no. that meant ring me back when she's gone. It did seem a bit pantomime-ish and when I asked for a receipt number for the fish sample was told on three occassions that they didn't give them.

Poor state of affairs, hopefully there won't be a next time - but if there is, will be straight to the trading standards office for me.

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Shaw Tarse said:

Maybe thank them for looking into the matter, apologise that there wasn't enough sample for them to investigate, but you also sent a sample to the local environmental health dept!

I'm too trusting for my own good - although I could visit Trading Standards Monday with an account of what happenned.

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It could only have been 3-5 hours after I bought it - but was in the fridge so would have been chilled.