In another thread (and in threads in the past), I’ve seen people claim that chefs have, when told about peanut or other allergies that would be dangerous or deadly to the diner, knowingly and secretly added that ingredient to show the diner that the allergy was psychosomatic. I’ve especially seen this related in terms of peanut allergies.
My question is, has this ever resulted in a fatality? If so, were any criminal charges filed against the person who did so? How would such a case likely proceed, in terms of verdict?
If a person knowingly put a substance someone was allergic to into a food I’d say they’d qualify for assault at the least, and, depending on intent, up to pre-meditated murder.
But I don’t personally know of such a case or recall hearing of one. I’m bumping this a bit in hopes someone will come forward with either a story or some lawyerly information.
How wierd! Yesterday I watched an episode of “Nash Bridges” where this very thing occurred. Somebody put peanut oil into tequlia and the guy who drank it died. (yeah, I was taking a break from the heat)
I would die if I didn’t have peanut butter to eat.
Charged and convicted are two totally different things. The difference would depend on where you left the chocolate and how reasonable that place is for chocolate to be. Then could you reasonably expect the dog to get into that place.
