Brisbane woman charged with Sizzler poisoning

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Wednesday, March 1, 2006

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Queensland, Australia police have charged a 57-year-old woman with the alleged contamination of the salad bar at two Sizzler restaurants.

Rat poison pellets were found in food at Sizzler restaurants at Toowong on January 20 and the Brisbane Myer Centre outlet last Sunday. Yesterday Sizzler closed salad bars nationwide, but they did not report the incidents to the Queensland Health Department until last Monday.

Queensland’s Health Minister Stephen Robertson criticised the restaurant chain for delaying reporting a possible incident of food contamination for 37 days. "I think this is a case that - a real life case - that we should perhaps learn some lessons from,” he said.

Queensland Police Inspector Bob Hytch said the woman is the same woman police asked to come forward after she told Sizzler staff she had found pellets in soup at the Myer Centre restaurant last Saturday.

The woman is expected to face Brisbane Magistrates' Court tomorrow charged with two counts of contamination of goods and four counts of an act intending to cause grievous bodily harm.

Related Wikinews

• "Sizzler salad bars shut after rat poison found in food". Wikinews, March 1, 2005

Sources

• "Arrest over Sizzler food scare". News.com.au, March 1, 2006
• "Arrest made in Sizzler poisoning case". Australian Broadcasting Corporation, March 1, 2006
• "Minister criticises Sizzler over poison reporting delay". Australian Broadcasting Corporation, March 1, 2006
• "Woman charged over Sizzler food scare". The Age, March 1, 2006
  

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