The lessons to be learned from Wishaw

摘要

This paper was presented at a Seminar on E. coli organised by Doncaster Metropolitan Borough Council and held at Doncaster Race Course on 20 October 1998. If the Environmental Health Officers (EHOs) who inspected Mr Barr's butchers shop had been doing their jobs properly, there was a good chance the Lanarkshire outbreak would have been prevented. That is official. Whatever else Mr Barr may or may not have done, Sheriff Cox also said that a key cause of the Barr outbreak was the failure of EHOs prior to the outbreak to 'identify the food safety hazards inherent in the practices carried out within Barrs' premises.'