Takeaway owner is ordered to pay just £3,000 after schoolgirl, 15, died from severe allergic reaction from yoghurt she didn’t know was in kebab
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Takeaway owner is ordered to pay just £3,000 after schoolgirl, 15, died from severe allergic reaction from yoghurt she didn’t know was in kebab.
A takeaway owner was ordered to pay less than £3,000 following the death of a teenager who suffered a severe allergic reaction after eating a kebab.
Chloe Gilbert, 15, who had a severe dairy allergy, ordered a kebab with lettuce and chips – only to die two hours later from an anaphylactic shock.
The schoolgirl and a pal had eaten at the Al Falafel Takeaway Ltd, which runs a shop in Bath, Somerset, owned by Riad Benotman, 37.
Chloe, who carried an epi-pen at all times, had unknowingly been exposed to yoghurt which was served as part of her meal, and she collapsed in the Southgate Shopping Centre in Bath shortly after.
Paramedics tried to revive her, but she was pronounced dead at the Royal United Hospital in the city, on March 5 2017, less than two hours after eating the meal.
Police shut down the takeaway the same evening, and began an investigation along with Bath & North East Somerset Council’s Trading Standards and Food Safety teams.
Tests were carried out on the doner kebab meat, and an investigation showed that Chloe had suffered a severe allergic reaction to the food she was served.
Appearing at Bath Magistrates’ Court, Benotman admitted failing to identify the food he served was hazardous to customers with food sensitivities, and failing to ensure documentation in respect of allergies was kept up to date.
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