By Paul Sakkal
The council official accused of editing an image of a slug to frame a food company has denied doctoring the photograph, as her council attacked the credibility of the Dandenong food supplier’s owner.
Greater Dandenong Council chief executive John Bennie and two council health inspectors implicated in “slug gate” denied impropriety at a Parliamentary inquiry investigating the closure of I Cook Foods on Wednesday.
Then-acting chief health officer Brett Sutton signed off on an order to close the business in early 2019 because officials determined it had provided food to an 86-year-old Knox private hospital patient who died from listeria infection…
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Committee chair Fiona Patten, who at last week’s hearing said she was quite confident the slug image was doctored, said a person with expertise in slugs had suggested the emergence of the nocturnal slug during the day was unusual, and that there were no slug tracks elsewhere in the premises…
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