Quirks

A few years ago a famous brand of sweet manufacturer released news that had been circulating about it for years; that it had a small problem with health and safety at one of its plants.

The reaction was subdued, a few bars of chocolate were removed from the shelves and now everything is OK.

I dare say that the only thing the government could do was either take bribes or close the plant until the matter was rectified. I don't know if anyone was forced to take early retirement, promotion elsewhere, nor if, indeed, the local authorities placed a clean up notice on the place.

Likely the fact they called in engineers to rectify the fault at the time they announced the hazard was enough.

I still can't eat their chocolates though. The idea there might be shit dribbling into the vats from a cracked sewage pipe still puts me off. Once (at least) I forgot about the brew (ha ha) and bought a bar of Cadbury's Whole Nut, my favourite sweet, and had to throw half of the precious toy away uneaten, when it recurred to me what else I might have been eating.

Yugh!

This is an extract from a British nationalised Health Service handout:

“....has been suffering from the potentially life threatening bowel condition Crohn's Disease.... ..even after having 3 children she is still prone to excruciating pain... ..A couple of years ago all I could have for 90 days was a hospital drink.... .. she is one of 60,000 in the UK with the disease ..which causes inflammation, ulcers and scarring to the wall of the intestine... ..

”Some sufferers can go for months without symptoms but I have constant stomach ache and diarrhoea.. I first started feeling ill 25 years ago with diarrhoea and losing blood... ..the symptoms persisted for two months... ..blood tests showed nothing...

... I was getting skin rashes, lumps down my shins and mouth ulcers. Then I saw something on TV and realised I had it.... ..A consultant confirmed it... ..test showed I had damage throughout my large and small bowel with certain sections or strictures withered, unable to absorb food through most of the bowel lining and causing the diarrhoea and pain”...

... had intolerance to dairy products, nuts, lamb and caffeine.”

Choices. Issue 3 (some editing by me.)
http://www.nhs.uk

Her bowel eventually burst but she recovered. Today she copes with it as an attitude problem as well as a dis/un-ease.

The subject is a successful candidate from one of those “dragged off the street with a modicum of the talent everyone has” shows that I have never watched.

There seems to be a recurring theme of milk allergies in the illness.

There is no connection with the faulty product line in the chocolate factory of course, except that with modern marketing, the lorries carrying the “very low ratio of human excretion : chocolate bars” around the country, visit every corner shop and hyper-market in the land.

Not that I am implying anything.

The fact that you can go into any supermarket dominating the shops of any British city and see a choice of not much more than half a dozen species of fresh fruit (or, for that matter, brands of cheese) gives you some idea of limiting factors that might be involved here.

And some of the practices of some of the supermarkets on some of their savouries counters is somewhat unsavoury as it is. Not that hygiene on the part of retailers has never been a major headache in all departments since the Romans first came here with their bloody garlic sausages...

No.
What I am implying is that the announcement about the septic sweeties came with the statement that the very low amount of human faeces in the mix amounted to very little health risk.

But when it comes to infection, it only takes a very low amount of amoeba, virus or bacteria in the very low amount of human faeces in the low amount of risk mix to amount to very significant health risk.

Crohn's disease has been around for a long time. I have no idea how long the Cadbury's plant has been going, nor how much leakage from their toilets there was over... ...whenever... but I do know that when it comes to microbes:
For some; three is a crowd.

And one may be company for life.