The closure of iCook Foods & council skulduggery
Luke Grants speaks again with Ben Cook from iCook Foods, which was allegedly shut down by dodgy bureaucratic intervention.
A parliamentary enquiry in Victoria is soon to be reopened following a series of recent revelations about the circumstances of the company’s closure, ordered by the Department of Health and Human Services.
These included the Herald Sun revealing DHHS had received a Knox Council report that an elderly woman who died with listeria in her system had not eaten a sandwich prepared by Cook.
The alleged sandwich connection was used as justification for the shutdown, despite the department already having a copy of the report clearing iCook.
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