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Slug gate, also written slug-gate, stylised as Slug Gate or SlugGate, is a public health scandal and controversy involving a catering firm I Cook Foods, the Department of Health and Human Services and the Greater Dandenong City Council of Victoria, Australia. In early February 2019, a woman died at the Knox Private Hospital and her post-mortem report showed listeria infection. An investigation supposedly linked sandwiches supplied by I Cook Foods as the source. On 22 February, Chief Health Officer Brett Sutton made a public statement on the health alert and issued an order to close down I Cook Foods. As one of the evidences of unhygienic condition at the food factory, health inspector Elizabeth Garlick claimed that she found a slug at the premise. The company owner, Ian Cook blamed Sutton of reckless decision and accused Garlick of planting the slug.
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