Five people were hospitalised after eating at two kebab stalls during this year's National Multicultural Festival.
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A team of eight health inspectors were kept busy throughout the weekend event in February, carrying out about 100 formal inspections.
A brief to Chief Minister Katy Gallagher shows the ACT's health protection service reported 11 cases of food poisoning, including eight confirmed by laboratory tests.
Five of the victims were hospitalised, and three of the cases involved potentially deadly salmonella bacteria.
The brief's author, Chief Health Officer Paul Kelly, said investigations had linked the poisoning to ''two possible kebab stalls''. He did not name the outlets.
Inspectors also identified three serious safety breaches that led them to destroy food because stalls had failed to meet ''storage and temperature-control requirements''. The team also reported ''a large number of hygiene breaches'' involving inadequate hand-washing and food-handling practices.
The health protection service regards the festival as a ''high-risk'' event.
Dr Kelly said the service would work more closely with the planners of next year's event.
