Vendor Responsible For Pineview Lunch Not Named

Thursday, February 01, 2007 11:32 AM

While Northern Health’s Chief Medical Health Officer will not reveal the food vendor involved in the alert at Pineview elementary, Dr. David Bowering says it will eventually become public knowledge.

"The food premise information, in terms of our inspection records, are public information on our website, so I think it’s inevitable that the premise name will become known." (click here to view the website)

But Dr. Bowering says, "At this point, because we’re investigating and because we’re still trying to find out what happened, I don’t see it as a public health need for people to know about it right now. They’re currently not operating." The business voluntarily ceased operations after a lunch of under-cooked chicken strips was served to 137 students at Pineview elementary, six of whom are home from school today, possibly as a result.

Asked whether it’s pretty basic to cook chicken strips, Dr. Bowering replied, "I am inclined to agree with you. I think it’s very basic that chicken, in particular, which is a relatively high risk food, be properly cooked."

"So this is something that we’re taking very seriously."

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Posted by: Chadermando on February 1 2007 2:06 PM

I think this is a very serious issue. I got food poisoning twice in high school from bad subs at the local corner store. I now take my food very seriously. There is nothing like riding a toilet bowl for two days dry heaving for those that have never experienced it. A bad hang over doesn't even do it justice.

I would think the food vendor should lose their license for at least a year to think about this.

Posted by: Harbinger on February 1 2007 4:31 PM

Toilet bowl? I thought it was called " driving the porcelain bus"? Or "talking to Ralph"? Could have been worse though. Could've been undercooked pork. Then it is called trichinosis. Not good.

Posted by: duffer on February 1 2007 4:43 PM

Trichinosis is a thing of the past. That was caused by feeding pigs "slop" as they used to call it. That was everything from old potato peels to coffee grounds, and any other food that was not eaten. If anyone on this site is old enough to remember the pails that were in every kitchen for all the garbage, this was always fed to the pigs. With all the food safety in the last 30 years there has been none of this fed to pigs on the commercial hog farms. They are all fed proper grain etc. Anyone that raises pigs for market have to follow strict guidelines for food safety. If pork is purchased direct from farms it would be up to the buyer to make sure the feed is up to standards. Private farms are not supposed to sell retail in the first place. They are supposed to sell to a provincially or federally inspected slaughterhouse.

Posted by: Marty on February 2 2007 7:58 AM

Thats fine and dandy duffer....but I still prefer my meat cooked thanks.

Raw "anything" meat is just gross IMO !

Posted by: snappi on February 2 2007 9:14 PM

I remember duffer, I grew up on a pig farm. None of us ever died from well fed pigs. Some meat however you shouldn't eat rare..but a nice rare beef steak....mmmmmmmmmmm