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This is costing you another chapter in the. County brought to you by the New York State Health Department and produced by the state radio. Today story. Health Commissioner of Empire County was in bed for a change even though it was the night of the annual Chamber of Commerce banquet yet made his apologies beg to be excused and by and I don't sleep. At night. How did happen. So you know about twenty minutes. I got to sit down for a moment. I don't suppose you can tell us just what type of food poisoning this is no no not yet our sanitariums and bacteriologists are on the job testing all of food served at the banquet we'll just have to wait on the results before we be sure but I'd be willing to hazard a guess that it was a staphylococcus outbreak signs seem to point to it the fact that the symptoms appeared so early within three hours after the meal was over points in that direction yeah sure right and as you know Dr Simons outbreaks usually come in one of two ways the food eaten may contain living bacteria which after they are taken into the body grown produce toxins poisons the other way is by food that contains toxins formed by bacteria even before team as I've ruled out the first possibility here because the onset of symptoms was so rapid It seems fairly obvious that whatever caused this outbreak was some food that contain toxins even before it was eaten your guess is that it was due to static oxygen and it's my pick at any rate will follow through along that line. Does it look as though any of the cases may prove extremely serious all oh no I don't think so staphylococcus food poisoning while very unpleasant is rarely too serious we're doing what we can to replace lost or looked in salts and we're providing symptomatic treatment as indicated or you seem to have things under control here I I better get over to the restaurant see what's going on in that department and ask about it if you want to I think I'll trust you to catnap. Talk. To me How can that be my beautiful kitchen at my kitchen so one can see a space in my pockets that's. Almost your doctor if you're just in posse I'm afraid it's not yourself twenty five of your guests have already been brought into the county hospital do you hate it can be used if we all said my kitchen do you see how you say spitting spot spic and span. Of food poisoning doesn't necessarily mean that the food was prepared in a dirty kitchen there are many ways food can become contaminated by bad refrigeration but now I have the I know I know I'm perfectly aware of Joseph that your restaurant sanitation and refrigeration facilities are excellent but something went wrong so let's find out what now what was the menu tonight the menu was your doctor Believe me it was fit for the gods you know I would tell you first I was discussing you sure they were fresh with your doc good but you need this money goes I just was sleeping in the ocean I had them shipped by airplane specially. Next week so yes frogs Lakes brother sent the specialty of the House believe me yeah yeah we did broccoli but they just don't mix greens rock with. Baked Alaska let me toss me. But you know Mr Bates bacteriologist from office took samples of everything every so well we got the results of our question of all the guests in our laboratory examinations with your doctor but I am just going to get my heart breaks. Are you OK. I'm sure Dr Bell absolutely positive I tested everything they said to Joseph that night up to and including the ketchup and no sign of anything that would produce more than a hiccup and we talked with most of the guests both those who got sick and those who didn't and so far we haven't turned up a constantly of course the laboratory slides confirm our hunch of stuff. But it just does not add up certainly and on top of that the president of the Chamber of Commerce has been burning up the telephone wants me to shut up the restaurant and send Joseph to the nearest Leprosarium also now it's a question of what's next. Well. Where we going to Joseph's want to take. Joseph are you sure look at this list again is this the entire menu complete but sure I'm sure said the Jennifer Keitt this is the way I prepare food that each guest was a king and for this bank. I accept it nice it always does I pretty much I get special print them so they even all did my football and even get my maid to come special. You do not know what the famous Andre got to do with the because the bill screwed him. Yes but what's he got to do with the banquet I could do you think the minute of the day that when I pick up. This is me you must do no no you can make all the days like you I said it so sweetly so he came. Up with fifty dollar holidays you mean hollandaise sauce but of course I'm totally hollandaise sauce wasn't on the list you gave me Joseph. Bates' do we check on any hollandaise sauce No we didn't I did not tell you. But naturally I didn't get sauce How is the holiday sauce made watch what I'm doing has its own special way it does not get Did I say to anyone but no it is like yeah I'm on the PA C.K. you watched him how do you make it when I THANK YOU think if you see he also double boy yes now ended up just put in the egg yolk eat them just sort of do they what they. Elected but what can be the exit get well with Moby Dick Yes yes go then hot lemon juice then made it but it is soup so start it we scoop up to pick up a peach of guy yet then he had an elegant cream so that sounds pretty delicate much here as there are not three ships in a better go can make a perfect out of days I'm going to use the mustard seed poor man when I ask to getting sick or not sick really but it's still a big thing for what or his finger oh boy oh oh oh Joseph how soon after Andre made the hollandaise sauce was it served to man even they did in the morning and saw today was that the dip. What did you do with the sauce from the time he made it until it was served was it was a kept in the refrigerator one day cigarette free takeout. I was going to give my wife in a broom closet that put on a dish in a refrigerator but no no it was kept in the back of a store when it was not too hot not too cold just right just right is right on a perfect culture stepper Cox I must have read like wildfire but you're. Going to say that the study how you call it what is eat Joseph there was something else on your menu you forgot to tell me about. What a couple of billion germs staphylococcus I jerked Now tell me Joseph if one of your employees was sick would you let him in the kitchen while you were down in the restaurant when my people just lifted Oh my don't hurt but I'm very we're sick Now why do you let him in the kitchen OK sick but oh what about the boil on his finger Oh Jack but oh boy puff a boy oh but that boy it was festering meaning Joseph it contain millions of very thin germs little microscopic outlaws called Stepping cocks out and look what happened in handling the food that went into the sauce accidentally of course some of these germs from Andre's boy landed into the holidays he was preparing now if the food had been boiled they would have been killed if the food have been properly refrigerated they couldn't have multiplied and they would have died you know all the food went in the back of the stove perfect temperature for the germs to multiply in a few short hours those first few little germs were millions and as they grew each germ ate a little bit of toxin and this toxin is what made the people sick that's what you feed your guests talk to. You out you are having a show oh it's no joke thirty people can testify to that but I do not know of course you didn't know Joseph No one has ever said this was anything deliberate but the responsibility for it is yours nevertheless and as the owner of a public eating place you're supposed to know these things and see that they never happen they won't quite know bark Dr I mean most of my people the first look I who serve food gets politically I so stuffy stuff you know you say stuff in the caucus stuff you stuff it on and they saw us with stuff oh oh oh. Oh. Clears up that mystery Dr Bell you know what I'm going to do about Joseph the place I don't think so he's learned his lesson I'm sure. You see but that's not the point I'm just wondering who's full of what you mean I mean who's to blame for this happening in the first place perhaps it's me you it's my job to educate people about these things to prevent them from happening that's the answer tomorrow we'll start making arrangements to set up a food handler school so that things like this don't happen again was set up a regular program of demonstrations films and talks trying to show these people the right way to food they must learn that the same food that nourishes us also can nourish the organisms that bring us disease people can't afford to be careless about food now in my book Bates the two of the greatest criminals in the world have one thing in common carelessness one is the careless driver the other is the careless cook. With this broadcast the New York state health department brings to an end its current. Series however we'll be back again in the fall with another exciting batch of stories about Walter Bell about his never ending fight to bring better health better living to the people of Empire County. The Wiley bells of all country all real unsung hero devoting their lives to your health always on the job twenty four hours a day seven days a week the silent workers the quiet fighters in the battle against disease the battle for good health for all people. War.