Georgian Food Agency fines restaurant, fish sale facility after 4 poisoned with seafood

The National Food Agency on Tuesday said it had fined a hotel restaurant and a sales facility of a fish market entrepreneur after four citizens of Uzbekistan were poisoned with oysters in Georgia's Black Sea city of Kobuleti.

The Agency noted the ruling had been made after it received reports from the Kobuleti branch of the Public Health Centre of Adjara on food poisoning with thermally unprocessed seafood products purchased at fish market in Batumi, another seaside city of the Adjara region.

The body said it had also carried out a state inspection at the facility in the fish market, where samples taken from the oysters revealed contents of salmonella and coliform bacteria E. coli.

The entrepreneur was fined ₾1,000 ($371) for the offence, with the products from the facility sealed and set to be destroyed.