Lawyers acting for 2 radical who fell sick successful the E.coli outbreak linked to crockery leaves person started ineligible enactment against Tesco and Asda for compensation.
Legal steadfast Fieldfisher told the PA quality bureau it has issued letters of assertion for breach of the Consumer Protection Act implicit own-brand sandwiches purchased successful the supermarkets.
The claims subordinate to an 11-year-old miss from the North West and a antheral from the South East.
The UK Health Security Agency said connected Thursday 1 diligent had died successful the E.coli outbreak, which investigators judge is linked to crockery utilized successful sandwiches.
Fieldfisher said the assertion against Asda relates to the 11-year-old miss who contracted E. coli aft eating an own-brand chickenhearted crockery sandwich bought astatine 1 of its stores.
Lawyers acting for 2 radical who fell sick successful the E.coli outbreak linked to crockery leaves person started ineligible enactment against Tesco and Asda for compensation (Stock image)
Tesco declined to remark connected the incidental which has left an 11-year-old miss from the North West and a antheral from the South East earnestly ill
The UK Health Security Agency said connected Thursday 1 diligent had died successful the E.coli outbreak, which investigators judge is linked to crockery utilized successful sandwiches (Stock image)
'The girl, aged 11, developed the superior information haemolytic uraemic syndrome (HUS), which attacks the kidneys and has been connected dialysis for 3 weeks,' it said.
'She was discharged location 2 days agone but could beryllium astatine hazard of imperishable kidney damage. Her parent bought 3 of the sandwiches arsenic portion of an online delivery.'
The ineligible manager of the firm, Harvinder Kaur, said she had issued a abstracted missive to Tesco connected behalf of an big antheral from the South East who was besides hospitalised with E. coli symptoms aft eating Tesco-branded sandwiches containing salad.
'Luckily, this lawsuit did not spell connected to make HUS and is present home, but for a clip helium was earnestly ill,' she said.
'Under the Act, companies producing nutrient indispensable guarantee it is harmless to eat.
'If it causes illness, it is simply a breach of their work and those injured are eligible to assertion compensation, not slightest to money imaginable ongoing aesculapian care.
'My lawsuit was a regular shopper astatine Tesco, buying his luncheon determination astir days since it was precise adjacent to his work.'
An Asda spokesperson said: 'We person not yet received immoderate missive from Fieldfisher regarding these claims, arsenic soon arsenic we bash we volition reappraisal the details of the assertion arsenic a substance of urgency.'
A Tesco spokesperson said: ‘We person not yet received notification of this assertion from Fieldfisher.’
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