Food poisoning from ASDA pasta sauce

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Hi folks, just looking for some advice. I bought some Leith's butternut squash and mushroom pasta sauce from ASDA. I made some up the day before yesterday. Yesterday (and today) I have been really sick. I didn't immediately attribute the sauce to being ill as I had eaten meat earlier, before eating the pasta and wondered if it could be that. Yesterday my partner finished the pasta sauce and has spent most of the small hours of this morning being sick. I couldn't even tell you the last time he was ill. He is off work today, as a contractor he will not get sick pay, so will be down £90. I work for NHS, although in probation period as worked for them for less than 6 months so unsure if I will get sick pay or not. I will also not be able to go back until symptoms have stopped for 48 hours as I work in health care.
What should we do next, write to them and send the jar off? And could we claim the £90 loss of earnings?

bris

If you work in healthcare then you should know food poisoning symptoms can take 2 weeks to appear so blaming one product over the others you had this week can be a mistake.

Are we really at the stage now where we need to get compensation for everything, whats wrong with just getting on with your life and seeing it as one of those things.

You can't even prove it's not just one of those bugs going round that millions of people pick up every day, you may have got in let me think, the place where you work you know that health care place that is rife with bugs and gave it to your husband.

Point being, just because your ill doesn't mean it has to be your last meal.

jacques_chirac

Equally your partner could have caught the bug off you. Are you going to give him £90?

[Deleted User]

I work in mental health as an HCA, so food poisoning isn't my specialty. All patients feed themselves in the dinning room so I have nothing to do with food handling. I just found it a bit of a coincidence that we both got ill. Quick bit of reading suggests that the incubation period can be as little as 1 hour. I am fairly sure that the sauce is the culprit. It's not compensation, I am not asking thousands here. But there have been loss of earnings probably due to ASDA's product.

Caz3121

has your doctor actually confirmed that it was food poisoning? what samples have you provided?
Lots of bugs going about just now - a colleague spent the other night throwing up thinking it was food related and I was floored with it the next night. We work together but ate separately...seems to be doing the rounds and can't have been related to food

p00hsticks

You should contact the Environmental Health Office at your local council

http://www.castlepoint.gov.uk/main.cfm?menuId=11300

Just_a_Girl_2

Caz3121 wrote: »

has your doctor actually confirmed that it was food poisoning? what samples have you provided?
Lots of bugs going about just now - a colleague spent the other night throwing up thinking it was food related and I was floored with it the next night. We work together but ate separately...seems to be doing the rounds and can't have been related to food

This. Have you actually provided stool samples to be analysed? Both of you? There are lots of sickness bugs going around so it could be he just caught a bug from you and the sauce is just a coincidence.

Faith177

Norovirus comes on as quick as anything and is rife this time of year so it might even be that.

Just noticed you work for the NHS if it is in a hospital they are a breeding ground for the norovirus

pmduk

Saying it's probably the last thing you ate will not be enough to prove (in court if necessary) what caused your illness. Your partner is just as likely to have caught the bug from you. You'd need to prove that it was the product that made you ill

Azmataz

Those symptoms could easily be descriptive of a viral, rather than bacterial bug. I doubt you'll recover loss of earnings, Op, although if you're lucky, you might get a small goodwill voucher.
I'll tell you one thing, when I had food poisoning, I couldn't type up on a forum. In fact, I couldn't do much of anything. Those days were a delirium of vomiting, 'visiting' the bathroom and sinking in and out of lucidity. It's one of only two instances in my life when I felt like I was truly dying.

neilmcl

OP, as others have said you have absolutely no evidence of food poisoning, let alone anything that shows the pasta sauce was in anyway at fault. Until you have this you're really not going to get very far.

Are you sure it's not the winter vomiting virus that's the cause.