Drinker Served detergent

Press, 23 March 1988, Page 26

Drinker Served detergent

PA ) ’ i i Wellington 1 A Lower Hutt hotel served , a customer detergent instead of orange juice, the District Court at Lower Hutt was told yesterday.’ ■’ j ; ! / f •)[■ | ) Level Sixteen, Ltd, trading as the Family Hotel, was charged) with three offences under Food Regulations. ) Guilty pleas were entered on all charges by Mr Bruce Pearson the governing director.) | Mr Graeme Cross, prosecuting for)) the Health Department, i told the court that on March 17 last year the; Health Department received a complaint from a) person who had ordered orange juice at the Family Hotel. When tasted, the juice turned out to be detergent The complainant ex-

perienced a burning sensatioi: in his mouth, his eyes watered and he started to vomit. '. In explanation, hotel [[ staff said the detergent ji had | been -I mistakenly placed in a chiller cabinet during cleaning the previous day. t • h [ Level Sixteen .was [ convicted of keeping detergent in a container having a brand that was likely to . mislead any person to believe) the contents of the contaiher were) intended for human consumption. Judge Robertson fined the company) $250, with $55 court costs and $5O solicitor’s fee, -with the condition : that half the fine He paid to the com- , plainpit I j [ The) defendant company was !< convicted : and discharged on the [other two charges.