Overview
- Bolton Crown Court fined Tayto £153,000 and ordered £309,136.09 in costs after the company admitted two food-safety offences.
- Nearly 600 people across the UK fell ill, with 35 seeking hospital treatment and 12 admissions, disproportionately affecting older adults.
- Investigators identified failures at the Wingates plant, including poor segregation of raw and cooked meat, drainage issues, and inadequate cleaning.
- Authorities traced the main contamination window to June–August 2021 with cases continuing into 2022, prompting one of the largest UK product recalls.
- The prosecution cited genome sequencing to link cases to factory samples, while Tayto apologized, cooperated with authorities, and reported about £800,000 in remedial work.