An Italian Michelin-starred chef has been handed a suspended jail sentence and fined after 53 folks fell in poor health after consuming clams contaminated with norovirus.
The costs associated to a marriage banquet at Marco Sacco’s Piccolo Lago restaurant, the place he has two Michelin stars.
Friends on the restaurant overlooking Lake Mergozzo in northern Italy, have been served a risotto throughout celebrations to mark the nuptials in 2021, La Repubblica reviews.
Nonetheless, the meals later turned out to be contaminated with norovirus, the extremely contagious virus often known as the winter vomiting bug.
Sacco mentioned he had served extra 3,000 comparable dishes and no issues had ever arisen, and insisted procedures had been adopted carefully.
A court docket sentenced him to 2 months and 20 days in jail for negligent damage and buying and selling in dangerous meals substances. The sentence was conditionally suspended.
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Eating room supervisor Raffaella Marchetti acquired the identical sentence, La Repubblica mentioned.
Moreover, Choose Beatrice Alesci, of the Verbania court docket, set provisional quantities to be paid of 20,000 euros (£17,000), together with 8,000 (£6,000) euros for the couple who organised the marriage banquet and 250 euros (£213) for every of the 53 individuals who fell in poor health.
