Carcass in his salad: amicable agreement with Normandin

News 17 July, 2017
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    Monday, 17 July 2017 17:17

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    Monday, 17 July 2017 17:25

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    An amicable agreement was reached between the woman who had found the carcass of a rodent in her salad and the chain of restaurants Normandin, depending on what was learned VAT News.

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    The agreement, although confidential, is to the satisfaction of the parties, according to our information.

    Reminder of the facts

    In April 2016, Pierrette Caouette was sitting at the restaurant Normandin on the rue Bouvier in Quebec, when she started to puke after taking a bite of his dish.

    “When I have eaten, this is where it was really hard. It was like the rock of the mix that I spat out and this is when I raised with my fork at the right hand of my bowl that fell on the table”, had told the lady of some fifty years.

    The assistant manager would have brought the plate into the kitchen. According to what she claimed in her lawsuit, Ms. Caouette wanted to review the contents of the dish, but the restaurant employees he would have refused.

    She had then called the police, who had told him to come to the hospital. A police officer had visited the site to see the status of the kitchen of the restaurant.

    The MAPAQ confirms

    The ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food of Quebec (MAPAQ), who analyzed the skeleton, which had indicated that it was a dead animal very deteriorated.

    According to the report of the MAPAQ, the sample analyzed was composed of a mass of dark brown, measuring 13 centimeters by 6 centimeters.

    The microbiological analysis of the rest of the salad was also demonstrated fecal contamination.

    The MAPAQ had confirmed that the food to which the carcass was found posed a risk to human health.

    According to the lawsuit she has filed, Ms. Caouette has suffered since this incident of severe emotional and psychological trauma related to the power supply and that is the reason why she had decided to ask $ 192 $ 400 to the mother house of the restaurants Normandin.

    The chain of restaurants had stated that it was a situation out of his control, a few hours after the release of the report of the MAPAQ.

    “It is important to clarify that the unwanted object discovered 16 months ago was not of our kitchens. It is unexpectedly found in the packaging of one of our suppliers of lettuce, ready-to-eat”, had stressed Restaurant Normandin.