About 50 get suspected food poisoning at homeless shelter

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Authorities say about 50 people in a Salt Lake City homeless shelter were taken to hospitals for suspected food poisoning.

A Fire Department spokesman says EMTs responded to the St. Vincent DePaul shelter Sunday night after receiving reports of multiple people vomiting. Jasen Asay says a bus was brought in to take many of them to different hospitals for treatment.

None of those sickened was in critical condition.

Asay says the Health Department is investigating. It's not clear what caused them to fall ill.

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[dembotoz]

1. god bless homeless kitchens but you do wonder about food quality sometimes

so much donated
so much cooked elsewhere....

[jtuck004]

3. As opposed to, say, Jack in the Box, who killed 4 kids and sickened hundreds of people. The list of

corporate killers is quite long.

So my choice is between food cooked in a kitchen where someone cares, vs where someone is out to make a profit, wherein the workers are taught that they are of the lowest importance, who are then asked to serve us.

I am not sure which one really gives me worse odds.

[KittyWampus]

2. This is why some of us on DU want people who feed homeless people on the street

out of food trucks or on a regular basis to have some oversight.