Company at centre of Calgary E. coli daycare outbreak pleads guilty

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Guilty pleas have been accepted by a judge ahead of what was supposed to be the start of a two-day trial for a company operating the kitchen connected to an E. coli outbreak at multiple Calgary daycares.

Penalties will be decided by a judge later on Thursday.

The City of Calgary charged Fueling Minds Inc. and its two directors, Faisal Alimohd and Anil Karim, in September with serving food at childcare centres without the required food services business licence.

The case stems from an eight-week E. coli outbreak first declared in September 2023 that sickened hundreds of Calgarians, mainly children.

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