By Cam Lucadou-Wells
Health department and City of Greater Dandenong officials are expected to front a re-opened state parliamentary inquiry into the ‘slug gate’ affair.
The new hearings were sparked by fresh questions about the shutdown of the Dandenong South-based caterer I Cook Foods by health authorities in early 2019.
ICF’s sandwiches had been linked to the death of a Knox Private Hospital patient.
However, a food safety assessment report by a Knox Council officer recently came to light that stated it was “more than likely” that the patient was eating the hospital’s “soft diet” sandwiches without crusts.
These were not prepared by ICF, but by the hospital’s kitchen with ingredients from three other suppliers, he stated.