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The Calgary company at the centre of a daycare E. coli outbreak was handed a $10,000 fine Tuesday morning after a judge accepted a joint sentence recommendation following the company's guilty plea to bylaw offences last month.
Fueling Minds Inc. — a catering company that provided food to local daycares — admitted to operating without a food services business licence at the time of the E. coli outbreak, which was declared in September 2023.
But with an ongoing proposed class action lawsuit before the courts, lawyers for both the company and the city, as well as the judge, were careful to separate Fueling Minds' guilt for the bylaw offence from any connection to the E. coli outbreak.
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At least 448 people — mostly children — fell ill and 40 people ended up in hospital. The most serious cases involved 23 patients who were diagnosed with hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS), a condition that can lead to life-threatening kidney failure.
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