State lab confirms chicken à la crème was behind wedding mass food poisoning

The state laboratory on Sunday confirmed that an incident which saw more than 70 people develop symptoms of food poisoning and 21 people hospitalised was caused by salmonella bacteria found in a batch of chicken à la crème, as well as bacillus cereus bacteria found in rice with vermicelli and penne with mushrooms.

Public health service director Herodotos Herodotou told the Cyprus News Agency that a total of nine samples were taken from the food which was served at the wedding reception, which...