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New checks pledged by Kosher food firm after schnitzel poisoning

September 19, 2008 13:57
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Europe's largest kosher-food manufacturer this week admitted that a chicken schnitzel which made a meals-on-wheels customer ill had been undercooked.

Hermolis said it had now put in place new procedures after Simone Simmons, 52, from Hendon, North-West London, was supplied the schnitzel which she said had made her sick.

Michael Lisser, managing director of the Wembley-based firm, said: "We used to probe [temperature check] one in every three to five schnitzels after cooking a batch to make sure they were hot enough and thoroughly cooked.

"On this occasion, there must have been one schnitzel that was thicker than all the others and so didn't cook fully in the centre. The other 13 schnitzels in that batch were all fine."