Dirty Derryn is taking time off from trawling through internet pedo pages,now the little t-urd (rymes with herd) is ruing the reputation of restaurants with his phone hacking mates at the Herald Sun Mark Dyer and company.
The salmonella outbreak in Ballarat. It possibly caused the death of one man. The Health Department closed the restaurant in December but didn’t name it as Rizzo’s until the place was cleared to re-open the other day.
If you’d eaten there and got sick around that time weren’t you entitled to know? Maybe go to the doctor as a precaution?
The Herald Sun has a special investigation on this issue today. The series by Fiona Hudson claims that a food poisoning outbreak at a sushi bar left more than 80 people sick and 19 in hospital but it was kept quiet by authorities. Hello mushrooms.
And she provides evidence of how councils routinely cover up such outbreaks. All of this despite new food safety laws brought in in 2010 that were supposed to make our system ‘ best practice’.
We’ve had national cases of botulism in the past where health authorities have seemed more intent on protecting a company’s reputation than getting the world out to the public. Money before morality.
Any reputable company, deserving of your patronage, should be on the front foot recalling their product and shouting it from the rooftops to their valued customers.
This veil of secrecy, ignoring and preventing your right to know, has gone on for years but it is getting worse.
I remember the Broughton Hall case back in 2007. The nursing home run by Benetas, an arm of the Anglican Church. They had a salmonella outbreak. People were dying from food poisoning and collapsing from dehydration and gastro-enteritis. Four old people died and 20 were hospitalised. Nobody called emergency. The then-Health Minister Bronwyn Pike didn’t find out for days and families of the elderly weren’t told anything. Hello mushrooms.
Other nursing homes have gone into lockdown and families kept in the dark as to why.
That same year, 2007, there was the nachos scandal. A batch of Nachos to Go contained the deadly botulism. A Melbourne man was paralysed and hospitalised after eating the nachos at work one day in January. The batch had a use-by date of April. No public warning was issued until mid-February.
The list is endless. There was the Pap Smear scandal ten years ago. I was threatened with three months jail after defying an Administrative Appeals Tribunal suppression order and naming a company called GDL – General Diagnositics Laboratories.
They were so sloppy that the Federal Government had cancelled their Medicare accreditation.
The Herald Sun had a huge Page One story about this Melbourne laboratory that had got lots of positive and negative tests mixed up. It affected thousands of female patients. But the paper didn’t name the company. In damage control, forget about the anxiety and health of thousands of women, GSL had gone to court and got a suppression order.
As I said at the time: Any business with a credible crisis management policy would have gone public. Would have set up a 1-800 number. Would have alerted all subscribing doctors and through them thousands of female patients. Would have said sorry.
Again and again it is ‘cover your arse’ time. And you the public are told as little as possible as late as possible. Kept in the dark and fed bullshit. Hello, mushrooms.
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