Egg farmer Douglas Wanstall, at his farm in Kent is taking legal action against Fridays claiming it is to blame for a salmonella outbreak on his farms
Egg farmer Douglas Wanstall, at his farm in Kent is taking legal action against Fridays claiming it is to blame for a salmonella outbreak on his farms that required the culling of 40,000 hens. ONE of the country’s biggest producers of supermarket eggs faces a £1 million legal claim over allegations that it helped spread a salmonella outbreak which poisoned more than 100 people. Kent-based Fridays is accused by one of its former suppliers in a High Court claim of spreading the outbreak across the country by contaminated egg-trays. It denies the claims and says food safety has always been its “highest priority”. Egg farmer Douglas Wanstall, 50, who once operated 14 farms with more than 250,000 laying hens, claims there was a series of failures by both Fridays and reg- ulators over the outbreak, which infected two of his farms and was kept from the public for more than two years. PHOTO:JEFF GILBERT 16th July 2021 Ashford, Kent, UK
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