Peppa’s Opens After Closed for E coli Outbreak
Peppa’s South King restaurant has reopened after being closed for an E. coli outbreak and a crash course in E. coli food safety and food handling by Sanitation Division of the Hawaii Department of Health.
Larry Lau, the Health Department’s deputy director for environmental health, told the Honolulu Star Bulletin that the restaurant staff was able to complete a 10-point mitigation plan. A state worker stayed at Peppa’s Korean BBQ restaurant until midnight Thursday to help train staff in E coli prevention and other food safety.
Peppa’s manager John Kim told the newspaper business was “totally dead” on Friday after being shut down all Thursday by health officials. The Peppa’s E. coli investigation was prompted by interviews with four of seven Honolulu E. coli O157:H7 outbreak victims who said they ate at the Pawaa restaurant last month.
Four of the seven were hospitalized and one remained in serious condition, possibly with HUS E. coli or thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP). These are life-threatening illnesses that also carry the risk of long-term damage to the central nervous system in addition to stroke, convulsions, brain injury and organ shutdown — especially kidney failure.
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E. coli Associated with Peppa’s Korean BBQ May Be Related to Food Handling Violations
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The Honolulu, Hawaii E. coli outbreak associated with Peppa’s Korean BBQ may be related to food handling violations that closed the restaurant down yesterday. According to the Honolulu Advisor:
Health officials said the department confirmed that at least four of the seven actually ate at the Ke’eaumoku-area fast-food establishment between March 2 and March 23, when the bacterial infections occurred. . . .
“We don’t often get clusters of cases like this,” said Health Department spokeswoman Janice Okubo.
After it was confirmed that some of those sickened by E. coli 0157:H7 had eaten at Peppa’s, state Sanitation Branch inspectors were dispatched to the restaurant, where they observed food-handling violations, Okubo said.
Those violations, coupled with confirmation of the Peppa’s connection, caused inspectors to issue a “notice of permit suspension” and a cease-and-desist order against the restaurant at about 10 a.m. yesterday, Okubo said.
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Peppa’s II Korean BBQ Tied to E coli Outbreak
The Hawaii Department of Health has suspended the license of Peppa’s II Korean BBQ in Pawaa as it investigates an outbreak of E. coli O157:H7 that has sickened seven people and apparently led to a case of HUS E. coli, or hemolytic uremic syndrome.
Health department officials told the Honolulu Star Bulletin newspaper that four of the seven outbreak victims ate at the restaurant. Four of the seven were hospitalized and one remains in serious condition “with an illness that developed after getting the bacterial infection,” the newspaper said.
In five to 15 percent of E. coli infections, patients develop life-threatening HUS E coli or thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP) in which toxins from the E. coli attack blood cells and wreak havoc throughout the body. Kidney failure is common and patients are at risk for many other complications, including stroke, convulsions, coma, paralysis, heart problems and other organ malfunction.
HUS and TTP are the leading causes of E. coli death.
Health Department spokeswoman Janice Okubo told the Star Bulletin that Hawaii’s E. coli outbreak victims were diagnosed from March 2-23 and that health officials have reminded doctors to report any other E. coli infections to the state.
The department suspended the business permit of Peppa’s II Korean BBQ at 1240 S. King St. after Sanitation Branch investigators observed food-handling violations. Okubo said restaurant managers agreed to the closure and are cooperating to correct violations.
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