Food poisoning morrrisons

paulharding150

Hopefully you're feeling better now and your grammar has improved since this morning so all is good with the world.

Without wanting to sound daft, I think you want to think carefully before complaining to Morrisons HQ or your local Council. Are you simply not overreacting and blaming the first thing that comes to mind?

belfastgirl23

if it's in a jar, would it be anything to do with morrisons? Surely would be the responsiblity of the manufacturer?

Mobility151990

belfastgirl23 wrote: »

if it's in a jar, would it be anything to do with morrisons? Surely would be the responsiblity of the manufacturer?

No. Morrisons sold it, so you would come against morrisons. THEN morrisons would go against the manufacturer.

vonjosrob

A couple of my friends at work were violently sick very suddenly and had not eaten anything in particular to cause it. There is definetily a bug doing the rounds just now, so could be that. Hope you feel better soon

JAG

You cannot expect Morrisons to take all the jars of crab spread off the shelf just because someone telephones them and says they have been ill after eating it. If they did this everytime someone contacted them nothing would be on the shelves.

If you are so convinced it was the contents of the jar that was to blame then take it to the the local environmental health department. Although they would probably not even test it unless they received other complaints.

It is more likely the Norovirus which you would be more exposed to using Morrisons shopping trolley than getting food poisoning from the crab paste.

Caroline73_2

You just ate the contents of the jar and nothing else all day? Did you just eat it straight from the jar?

SUESMITH_2

ring environmetal health, save the jar and be prepared to give a stool sample - if you can't get the jar there straight away stick it in the freezer (not the stool sample)

lotsa of bugs going round at the mo, more likely to be that than food poisoning

ALIBOBSY

If thats all you ate all day you are severely under eating. Your body may be reacting to being fed an extreme diet (low calorie and not at all balanced), you should be talking to the doctor about your eating issues rather than a bout of sickness to be honest.

Hope you get the help you need and feel better soon.

ali x

abercromb

I find this thread pretty funny. I think people underestimate the level of food complaints retailers get. I would expect a retailer like morrisions to deal with well over 1000 complaints a week.
The most common is feeling ill etc followed by a foreign body like plastic, hair etc. Its only when a trend is reported of say 5 complaints for the same thing will a retailer take action. Then they will contact the supplier about it.
The request to take something off the shelf is the last in a very long list of actions a retailer will do. After all the removal of somnething like Crab paste from the shelf will involve a group at head office, people at each depot, atleast 2 people in every store plus the supplier. Thats probably close to a 1000 people and a cost running into the tens of thousands.

Not something they would do when it could be something as simple as the knife used to spread the paste had been used on something else and was not clean.

chipbeck

SUESMITH wrote: »

ring environmetal health, save the jar and be prepared to give a stool sample - if you can't get the jar there straight away stick it in the freezer (not the stool sample)

lotsa of bugs going round at the mo, more likely to be that than food poisoning

I'm struggling to see why it is a requirement to show environmental health what you were sitting on at the time you were eating the offending food. Perhaps someone could enlighten me?