By Liz Hull for the Daily Mail
Published: 00:38 BST, 15 June 2019 | Updated: 00:39 BST, 15 June 2019
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Vulnerable hospital patients should not be given sandwiches and salads because of the risk of infection, the sandwich-makers’ industry body said yesterday.
Jim Winship, director of the British Sandwich Association (BSA), said some hospitals did not store food at sufficiently cold temperatures, allowing bacteria to grow.
Speaking as the number of deaths in the listeria outbreak rose to five, Mr Winship said chilled foods such as sandwiches should not be served to patients with lowered immunity.
Deadly toll: A sandwich made by the firm at the centre of the listeria outbreak
‘Listeria occurs naturally in some foods like salad leaves – you can’t get away from it entirely and there is no regime that can kill it off completely.
‘We have expressed concern for some time that a lot of the products being served in hospitals contain risky ingredients that should not be eaten by vulnerable groups – patients that are very ill, with suppressed immunity. There is also a bigger issue of the mishandling of products on
