By Cam Lucadou-Wells
Opposition health spokeswoman Georgie Crozier has requested a copy of a ‘secret’ letter that purportedly exonerated I Cook Foods on the day of its enforced closure by health authorities.
Ms Crozier told State Parliament that she lodged freedom-of-information requests for “critical correspondence’ sent by Knox City Council to the state’s health department on 22 February 2019.
It was allegedly sent the same day that the Dandenong South-based ICF was closed by the department as part of an investigation into a patient’s death from an alleged listeria infection at Knox Private Hospital.
By the time it re-opened six weeks later, the business was destroyed. Forty-one employees lost their jobs.