Annual Food Poisoning Cases Resulting from Home-based Food Businesses

Mr Ng Shi Xuan asked the Minister for Sustainability and the Environment in the past five years (a) what is the annual number of food poisoning cases that have occurred as a result of consuming food sold by home-based food businesses; and (b) what actions are taken in these cases.

Ms Grace Fu Hai Yien: Over the past five years, Singapore Food Agency (SFA) investigated an annual average of one suspected case of food poisoning incident linked to consuming food sold by home-based food businesses. The investigations did not find any causative link between the food sold and the food poisoning incident.