Deadly E.coli-contaminated cheese is from Lancashire where unpasteurised milk for cheese production is allowed unlike in Scotland

Prof Hugh Pennington in his natural abode but apparently knowing little about cheese production in England.

BBC Scotland has an extended report on the death in Scotland and does, in the text, tell us the cheese is from Preston in Lancashire.

Prof Pennington, above, is on BBC Breakfast to tell us twice that E.coli is more common in Scotland than in England but fails to mention that Scotland, with only 8% of the UK population, has a far higher presence of the bacteria-carrying animals with, for example, almost 30% of the UK herd of breeding cattle and 4% of the massive EU herd.

https://www.nfus.org.uk/farming-facts/what-we-produce.aspx

We also do not hear from Pennington or any other media, as far as I can see, crucially, this from the Food Standards Agency on 8 November 2023:

Enforcement activity has been severely hampered by the COVID-19 pandemic, with available resources concentrated on monitoring high-risk food businesses, for example those providing unpasteurised milk for cheese production. As Scotland does not allow the sale or distribution of raw drinking milk, it has a higher proportion of dairy farms that are generally considered lower risk in the inspection regime compared to those in the rest of the UK.

https://www.food.gov.uk/our-work/our-food-2022-foreword

10 thoughts on “Deadly E.coli-contaminated cheese is from Lancashire where unpasteurised milk for cheese production is allowed unlike in Scotland”

  1. They just can’t help themselves, can they?
    I believe it’s called pathological lying. Clearly they’re all deranged with addiction problems.

    Deelsdugs

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  2. It is quite a few years since Poison Pennington has graced our screens.

    The Poisoner has been retired for very many years. Are there no current scientists in his field who could be asked for their opinion?

    Of course there are, but, getting up-to-date information on a single fatality from E Coli is not the point, is it? They want a ‘Scotland is Baaad’ aspect. Even though the cheese was produced in Lancashire the falality has been in Scotland, ergo, Scotland baaaad.

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  4. driving up the road i heard that report on BBCScot last night. in one statement he says, higher in Scotland than rUK tho no idea why. (i listen in on my commute. forgive me, it’s a wee perversion of mine) then goes on to say more prevalent in the colder seasons. well Durr. and zero mention of the 30% of the Herd.

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  5. I’d read the original article https://archive.ph/Hktgh yesterday, posted from the UK Health page, where it is made clear that there is as yet no definitive connection between the victim, the place of death, the infection or ingestion – In fact there is no direct connection to the product recall which was precautionary.

    The UKHSA are searching for a ‘needle in a haystack’, whilst the BBC are bluntly rustling the hay….

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