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Australian woman charged with contaminating strawberries with needles

By Karishma Luthria

 

FILE PHOTO: Customer notice signs are displayed underneath packets of Australia strawberries on sale at a supermarket in the central New South Wales town of Mudgee in Australia, September 23, 2018. REUTERS/David Gray

 

SYDNEY (Reuters) - A 50-year-old woman will face court on Monday after police charged her with contaminating strawberries with needles, an episode that spurred one of Australia's biggest food scares.

 

Australia's strawberry industry, worth A$160 million (89.44 million pounds), was rocked in September after nearly 200 complaints were made of sewing needles found in strawberries and other fruits.

 

Several major supermarkets withdrew the fruit as shoppers abandoned purchases, forcing some growers to dump fruit amid warnings of widespread bankruptcies.

 

Australian police said on Monday they had charged a 50-year woman with seven cases of contamination, the first charges laid in the case.

 

"This has probably been one of the most trying investigations that I've been part of," Queensland Police Detective Superintendent Jon Wacker told reporters in Brisbane, the capital of Queensland state where the contamination crisis was first reported.

 

Police said the woman was a former employee of one of the brands affected, although he did not specify which one.

 

The woman faces up to 10 years in jail if found guilty after Australia's conservative government toughened sentencing in a bid to contain the crisis.

 

Australia also criminalised hoax claims.

 

Wacker said police received 186 complaints of fruit contamination, of which 15 had been found to be hoaxes.

 

Strawberry growers welcomed the charges but blamed social media for the crisis.

 

"It was a crisis driven by social media and the only real victims were the strawberry growers, and to some extent other Australian fruit growers and exporters," the Queensland Strawberry Growers Association said in a statement.

 

Queensland, Australia's largest strawberry-producing region, is particularly vulnerable to a sustained downturn in the market.

State premier Annastacia Palaszczuk said on Tuesday her government would set aside A$1 million ($722,400) to help farmers make it through the season.

 

($1 = 1.3843 Australian dollars)

 

(Reporting by Karishma Luthria; Editing by Paul Tait)

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2018-11-12

[harada]

1 hour ago, car720 said:

She was a Vietnamese import.

Also these strawberry farmers are famous for the low wages they pay and always ripping people off and treating them like slave labour.

I think you're right on the money there car720, I'll be interested to hear what comes out in court.

[Russell17au]

6 hours ago, car720 said:

She was a Vietnamese import.

Also these strawberry farmers are famous for the low wages they pay and always ripping people off and treating them like slave labour.

I'll correct your post for you car720 if you do not mind. She was one of the many asian imports that illegally work in the strawberry farming industry.

[Old Croc]

Most of the Vietnamese working in the strawberry and tomato industries in Australia are not illegal. Many came with the first asylum boats to enter the country, were given residency, and drifted into these sorts of jobs.

 

Edit- Update

"Ms Trinh, who was born in Vietnam but came to Australia as a refugee 20 years ago, worked at the Berrylicious/Berry Obsession fruit farm north of Brisbane as a picking supervisor." (The Australian)

Edited November 12, 2018 by Old Croc

[Lucky mike]

Yes Australian, not all were born there does not make the any more or less "Australians " probably the only real Australians are the aboriginals who arrived some 40,000 years ago! Australia owes many of these migrants a great deal......

8 hours ago, disambiguated said:

'Australian'.

 

[simple1]

I live in the strawberry / seasonal crops area of the Sunshine Coast. There are many Asians working as crop pickers and so on. Many are underpaid, no sick leave, no benefits whatsoever. My wife worked as a strawberry picker for a few days until I found out the pay and conditions as an employee of an Australian as are all those who are exploited (they do use third party contractors as well who also exploit the workers). It is a national disgrace such working conditions are permitted by government.

[Lucky mike]

2 hours ago, disambiguated said:

Ah, the magic dirt of Australia, that somehow transforms immigrants into Australians.

 

Gotcha.

 

 

Like the English convicts ?