date:Mar 17, 2014
ir health can contact their doctor.
We have been advised that a person packing some varieties of apples and peaches in a Hawkes Bay packhouse has been diagnosed with Hepatitis A. This worker handled Royal Gala and New Zealand Beauty apples and Golden Queen peaches over a four day period while they would have been infectious. Hepatitis A virus can remain infectious on the surface of fruit for some months and transmit infection to other handlers and consumers.
Mr Gallacher says while some potent