Hep A berry fears for SA school children

Children at nine South Australian primary schools and child care centres may have been served frozen berries from the batches at the centre of the hepatitis A scare.

Principals and directors at the sites are contacting parents to notify them of the possible risk and provide them with SA Health advice.

The Department of Education and Child Development (DECD) chief education officer, Jayne Johnston, said while advice suggests the infection risk is low, the facilities are taking a cautious approach.

"Parents will be understandably concerned to receive the letter, but I would like to emphasise that SA Health advises that the risk is considered to be quite low and the product recall was being undertaken as a precaution," she said in a statement on Wednesday.

She said parents should read the SA Health advice and take their children to their GP if they have any of the listed symptoms.

An alert has been sent to all DECD schools, preschools, child care centres and Families SA facilities notifying them of the potentially contaminated products and advising them to dispose of these.