LONDON (Reuters) - A woman has died and two more people are seriously ill after an outbreak of E.coli in Scotland which may have been caused by cooked meat from the supermarket chain Morrison, health authorities said on Tuesday.
A BBC undercover investigation at Tesco and J. Sainsbury supermarkets hit the headlines in May when it showed employees sometimes failing to follow food hygiene rules.
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Another outbreak ? caused by supermarkets
sometimes failing to follow food hygiene rules my bottom?
On many a occasion I?ve blanched to see the servers on deli counters, although adhering to the rules of wearing protective overalls, hair covering and using those thin see through plastic gloves move from one product to the next without changing gloves (ie: meat to dairy and back again, etc etc) and then, even worse bringing the said gloves up to their face to wipe something away or passing the said gloves over loose bits of straggling hair and continuing to serve wearing the same gloves ?.
My trolley has then developed its own exit strategy and I?ve returned any previous deli purchases to their counter!
And don?t get me started on hygiene in hospitals nowadays ? okay if you insist I will say something on it such as:
One of the memorable instances that springs to mind is staying with my Mother when she was transferred from A&E to the monitoring ward and watching in bewildered disbelief as the nurse, when asked by me for a jug of water for my Mother, moved from my Mother?s bed to the bed of the man just across the way who was packing up to be discharged and blithely took the jug and glass he had been using off his side cabinet and placed it in front of my Mother. Beggars belief doesn?t it and no I did not allow my Mother to use that particular jug or glass and yes I did make a formal complaint to the ward sister ? for what it was worth.
