446 infections were linked to a number of daycares and other facilities
Details are expected Monday from a provincially mandated third-party review of food safety at childcare facilities in the wake of a massive E. coli outbreak in Calgary last year.
The panel was established in September 2023 and is led by former Calgary police chief Rick Hanson, who was tasked with taking a “broader look at the legislation and regulations that govern food safety in our province.”
The review was also to feature parents, childcare and food service operators, and food safety and public health experts.
Watch the news conference below starting at 1:30 p.m.:
Thirty-eight children and one adult infected with E. coli were sent to hospital for treatment. Twenty-three of those patients were diagnosed with hemolytic uremic syndrome and eight required dialysis, AHS said at the time.
The outbreak was connected to a central kitchen used by the daycares.
The charges came after city business safety officers learned the kitchen had been providing catering services to five local daycares that were not owned by the company, a service that’s outside the scope of the kitchen’s provincial business licence.
If convicted, fines could total as much as $120,000.
More to come …