SINGAPORE: The Singapore Food Agency (SFA) has lifted the suspension of Pu Tien Services at Senoko South Road after a mass food poisoning incident on Jul 30 at TikTok owner ByteDance’s office.
“As the licensee has implemented the required measures as stipulated by SFA, operations can be resumed,” SFA and the Ministry of Health (MOH) said on Saturday (Aug 10).
Pu Tien Services at Senoko South Road was one of two caterers whose food business operations were suspended on Jul 31 following the incident.
The other caterer, Yun Hai Yao at Northpoint City, remains suspended. The licensee’s suspension will be lifted after it has implemented the required measures as stipulated by SFA, the agency said in response to CNA’s query on Saturday evening.
MOH and SFA had received reports of gastroenteritis affecting a total of 169 people who had consumed food supplied by the two caterers.
The 17 people who were hospitalised have since been discharged.
Pu Tien said on Saturday evening it was relieved that the suspension was lifted.
The caterer said in a statement that it had kept samples from all food delivered to ByteDance’s office on Jul 30 and sent the food samples for independent third-party laboratory testing and analysis.
“The laboratory results confirmed that all the food samples met the food safety regulations established by SFA,” said Pu Tien Services.
“The results also confirmed that both listeria and salmonella, bacteria known to cause food poisoning, were not detected in any of the samples,” it added.