Beetroot salad likely source for Nepal flight food poisoning

A total of 43 passengers on Cathay Pacific flights, which arrived in Hong Kong on January 8 and 9, developed symptoms of food poisoning 10 to 60 minutes after consuming inflight meals.

An epidemiological analysis into food poisoning clusters among passengers on two Cathay Pacific Airways flights from Kathmandu to Hong Kong identified beetroot salad as the most likely source of contamination.