Eatery that served toxic tea had labeling citation

[Omaha Steve]

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Source: AP-Excite

By BRADY McCOMBS

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah restaurant where a woman unknowingly drank iced tea mixed with chemicals, and nearly died, was cited seven months earlier for improper food labeling.

County officials issued seven violations to Dickey's Barbecue in South Jordan following a January inspection, Salt Lake County Health Department records show. The year before, the restaurant had six violations.

Dickey's Barbecue has had no violations for improper chemical labeling since opening in 2012, records show.

Authorities say a worker at the establishment unintentionally put a chemical cleaning compound in a sugar bag last month. The substance ended up in a Sandy woman's glass of iced tea Aug. 10 after an employee mixed it into a beverage dispenser.

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Attorney Paxton Guymon holds a photograph of Jim and Jan Harding during a news conference in Salt Lake City on Thursday, Aug. 14, 2014. Jan Harding, 67, is in critical condition at a Salt Lake City hospital's burn unit, unable to talk and fighting for her life, Guymon said. She drank sweet tea containing a toxic cleaning chemical, severely burning her mouth and throat at a Utah restaurant after an employee mistook the substance for sugar and mixed it into a dispenser, Guymon said. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer) (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)


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[Manifestor_of_Light]

1. The woman got an alkaline burn. That's serious. NaOH.

Those people are incredibly stupid. The woman who did it confessed. Anybody who would put lye in a sugar container would have to be incredibly stupid.

And the victim will probably have to sue the bastards to get her medical bills paid.

[bullwinkle428]

2. Dickey's BBQ had several locations that opened and closed in the last few

years here in eastern Iowa. I'm honestly not shocked that this incident took place in one of their restaurants. My friend and I ate at two different locations, one time each, and we were pretty well underwhelmed each time.

Everything seemed to be managed in a rather sloppy and haphazard manner on each occasion. In fact, the location where the second and final experience took place closed literally no more than two months after it had opened. I know what a cut-throat business running a restaurant can be, but that seemed shocking by even those standards.

[blkmusclmachine]

3. Sue 'em.

[mackerel]

4. I can't wrap my head around how this happened. We have a Dickeys in town,

I've only eaten there once. Just not my kind of food. I'll think twice about ice tea in the future.

[Sadie5]

5. We have a Dickey's where i live

I have eaten there several times and like it. But I notice sometimes they are out of big cups so you have to refill the small cup often. The food is good.

[dballance]

6. Now that they almost killed somone after several citiations is it time to close them down?

I'd hate to do that to the workers. However, almost killing someone with sweetened tea is pretty serious. It seems they have a history of poor management.

[greatauntoftriplets]

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