VIC: Warning to volunteer groups over cooking

AAP General News (Australia)
04-08-1999
VIC: Warning to volunteer groups over cooking

A major public health education campaign is being planned to help prevent food poisoning
prepared by volunteers following the recent death of an elderly Victorian man.

Health officials say the Victorian Government will release a set of health guidelines for
volunteers preparing food for public sale within the next month.

The guidelines, currently open to public comment in draft form, are part of a public
education campaign to prevent food poisoning prepared by volunteers.

Victorian human services department head of disease control Dr JOHN CARNIE says volunteer
groups who cook food for the public may underestimate the deadly risks.

AAP RTV cmc/imc/wz/am

KEYWORD: PANCAKE (MELBOURNE)

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