Here is a cautionary tale in today's newspaper.
In a situation of food poisoning, I'd be getting the sufferer off to the nearest hospital!
Finding the sauce of fatal fish dinner [SMH]
IT WAS not the fish of the day that killed the 81-year-old retiree William Hodgins but, just 12 hours after dining with his wife, Audrey, at the upmarket Tables restaurant in Pymble on Friday, January 12 last year, Mr Hodgins was dead.
He had suffered from severe vomiting and diarrhoea within an hour of leaving the Pacific Highway restaurant about 9.30pm to return to the couple's unit in nearby Telegraph Road, Westmead Coroners Court heard yesterday.
An investigation by the NSW Food Authority had discovered the toxic vegetable pathogen Bacillus cereus in an asparagus cream sauce served to him and 14 other customers that night who had ordered the fish of the day, snapper, Inspector Dean Lindley of Hornsby police told the coroner, Jane Culver.
It is alleged the sauce, a sample of which was seized by a Food Authority inspector hours after Mrs Hodgins found her husband dead the next morning, was up to 48 hours old when it was served to him.
Inspector Lindley told the court there was evidence that Mr Hodgins had spent the night vomiting as his wife slept.
The scary side of dining.
Have you ever had a close call, ending with you in hospital?
QF009's
Trip Report is an amazing read if you have time, especially his allergic reaction and his friends' very rapid response and great treatment at Cedars Sinai - for this unlucky Aussie!
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