India, Aug. 11 -- Authorities in Italy have issued a nationwide recall of broccoli after a man died and nine others were hospitalised in a suspected botulism outbreak linked to a street food vendor. The victim, 52-year-old artist and musician Luigi Di Sarno, is believed to have eaten a contaminated broccoli and sausage sandwich while travelling home from holiday with his family.

Luigi Di Sarno, 52, was an artist and musician from Cercola in the province of Naples. He had been returning from a family holiday in Calabria when the tragedy occurred, according to a report in London Evening Standard.

On Thursday, Di Sarno stopped with his family at a food truck on the seafront in Diamante, Cosenza province, where they ordered broccoli and sau...