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| What does it say on the bottom left corner??? Keep Frozen. |
Louis Shalako
This is a public service announcement regarding
food safety in Sarnia, Ontario. Frozen chicken wings as seen in the No Frills
flyer, purchased this morning, April 18, 2024, at 10:30 a.m. were not frozen. The wings which had been in my freezer for over two and a half hours. They were not frozen. Every
other item in my freezer was frozen, hard as a rock. The chicken wings were not
frozen. Do not consume the not-frozen Schneider's Chicken Wings from Kyle's No
Frills in Sarnia, Ontario. Salmonella is no joke. Maybe we will get to see that
medical evac helicopter after all, ladies and gentlemen...
I had those home within twenty minutes. They
were not frozen.
Scenario: the much-publicized medical evac chopper is grounded due to
chronic underfunding, and Kyle's No Frills is selling un-frozen chicken wings
to unsuspecting Sarnia residents...
Kyle's No Frills, here in Sarnia, Ontario, has had trouble with that
particular bunker before. A bunker, is a freezer unit with an open top, often
used to display frozen food items in the weekly flyer...I know this, because I
have gotten sick from frozen foods from Kyle's No Frills here in Sarnia,
Ontario, before. Funny thing was--it was Schneider's frozen chicken wings.
So. You are the manager of a No Frills supermarket, one of your bunkers
has gone off, and you have a bunch of un-frozen, frozen Schneider's chicken
wings now not frozen. Although they are still a bit cool. You need to let the
head office know immediately, or at least a good three or so days ahead of
time, so that they can squeeze that into the #flyer, as
some sort of promotion.
This morning I spoke to another food service professional. I told them
about Schneider's frozen chicken wings that were not frozen. The first thing he
said: "Their freezer is not set to the correct temperature." That is
especially true when you consider that after over 2 1/2 hours in my own
freezer, they were still soft and squishy. Before I left this morning, (April 19/24), I stuck
my hand into my own freezer, the meat patties and bacon are hard--not soft and
squishy. But let us consider the refrigerated transport. The trucker picks up a
load. He drives down from the Toronto area. He makes deliveries here, there,
along the way, and he ends up in Sarnia. He backs up to the loading dock. He
leaves the engine running...it's noisy. He cannot hear if the reefer unit is
working or not. Staff unload the products using a small forklift or skid-steer
device. They might wear gloves. The products are packed in cardboard boxes.
They are rolled into the No Frills refrigerated storage area, and essentially
no one thinks twice about the process. It would be a simple thing for a store
employee to pull out a digital thermometer and poke it into the back of that
truck and just see what the temperature is in there.
Symptoms of food-borne illness can include intestinal cramps, sweats,
chills and fever, as well as the bloody diarrhea. Most folks get over it in
twenty-four hours, but some cases are fatal, in the case of the elderly,
children and infants, as well as people suffering from compromised immune
systems. It is not fun, and it is not a joke.
So, 'while supplies last', over the course of a
one-week promotion, potentially, hundreds of Sarnia residents could consume
frozen chicken wings, that had thawed out, whether in the truck, in the store,
or in a distribution warehouse. Most of them wouldn't know what hit them,
assuming they bring the product home, stick it in the freezer and when they
pull that out some days later, it will be frozen--or refrozen, and they will
have no idea of where that came from.
And that bit about the helicopter ain’t no joke
either.
#Louis
END
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Thank you for reading, ladies and gentlemen.
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