Just a matter of time before E.coli spread - (South Wales Echo)
February 21, 2008 – 6:53 pmhttp://icwales.icnetwork.co.uk/news/health-news/2008/02/21/just-a-matter-of-time-before-e-coli-spread-91466-20503829/
http://barfblog.foodsafety.ksu.edu/2008/02/articles/e-coli/e-coli-butcher-played-russian-roulette-with-school-meals/index.html
Brian Curtis, a retired senior Food Standards Agency official, who now works as a freelance food safety consultant, was cited as telling a public inquiry that the use of a single vacuum packing machine for both raw and cooked meat at E. coli butcher William Tudors factory was like playing Russian Roulette.”
adding, “It seems to me, in a crude analysis, it is a bit like playing Russian Roulette.
You might get away with it the first time, the second time, the third time, but progressively you have a greater chance the gun will go off and what we are talking about is a nine-month period.”
Mr Curtis was further cited as telling the inquiry yesterday that a document produced by Tudor, which was supposed to ensure the food he produced was safe by identifying where a risk of contamination could occur and how it could be avoided, failed to do so, […]
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