Heston Blumenthal closes The Fat Duck after food scare!!!

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It can even happen to the best BBC NEWS | UK | Fat Duck shuts after food scare

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Ann

I wonder if some of there condiments could be bad. Here in the USA we have had quite a peanut butter scare. Peanut butter from one company was laced with salmonella. About eight people have died. Come to find out the plant knew of the salmonella and shipped the peanut anyway. There is just no trusting food companies or the FDA. We had some granola bars with the tainted peanut butter and alot of them had already been consumed. We took back what was left after being notified and got a refund. We haven't felt sick yet and knock onwood we won't.

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CookieMonster

At first forty people had complained of feeling unwell,then in the space of a week over four-hundred had complained.....all sounds a bit fishy to me

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shammrok

It maybe mass hysteria or someone is out to bring this guy down.

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them apples

This does seem odd. It's interesting that they still haven't got to the bottom of what caused this yet, and therefore, technically, the restaurant can't be to blame, although it does seem to be the biggest common factor in each case.

You'd expect that a chef like Blumenthal, with an almost obsessive eye for detail, would have the cleanest kitchen possible, which makes this all the more puzzling. It goes to show that it could be anything and it could happen to anybody, even the best.

One of our local butchers was nearly ruined in an ecoli scare last year. Something to do with cooked meat becoming contaminated. the place was spotless, absolutely sparkling clean, but still this happened.