Overview
- Bolton Crown Court sentenced Tayto Group after guilty pleas to placing unsafe food on the market and failing to protect food from contamination, imposing a £153,000 fine plus £309,136.09 in costs.
- Health agencies linked the outbreak to products made at the company’s Bolton factory, with 179 people reporting illness across the UK and several requiring hospital treatment, prompting a 2021 recall and halted production.
- Victim Ruanda Davis, 64, was hospitalised for five days with salmonella and reported ongoing bowel problems for nearly a year after consuming the snack in June 2021.
- Irwin Mitchell said it secured a collective out-of-court settlement worth more than £300,000 for people affected by the outbreak.
- Tayto issued an apology, said it cooperated extensively with authorities, cited voluntary recall and shutdown at the Bolton site, and reported more than £800,000 of remedial work and improved safety procedures.