Zoo Officials Serve Poison Instead of Syrup in Sno-Cones

FOXNews.com ^ | Saturday, May 30, 2009 | FOX NEWS

[metmom]

The Sedgwick County Zoo in Wichita, Kan., will no longer be selling blue sno-cones after a dangerous mix-up at the refreshment stand, Fox4KC reported.

Four people became sick Thursday when a zoo employee accidentally poured a degreasing agent into the sno-cone machine instead of the flavored syrup.

[metmom]

So instead of keeping degreasing agents away from food areas, or expecting the employees to read the labels, they stop selling the snow cones.

[DBrow]

The label probably was in English, I’d guess.

[I Drive Too Fast]

Remind me to not order the snow cones at the zoo.

[metmom]

That’d be my guess. That explains it.

[South40]

Bush’s fault.

[cweese]

Chinese sno-cones?

[FreeSouthernAmerican]

And as Frank Zappa so aptly put it, don’t you eat that yellow snow.........cone either.

[GreyMountainReagan]

"Hey Brian, what's the score?"

"SNOW CONE, you get a free snow cone"

[metmom]

With their track record......

[al baby]

especially the yellow snow cone

[Paved Paradise]

Something similar occurred a few years ago where a nuclear med tech or similar profession accidentally put a cleaning solution into IV line, instead of the contrast dye. The patient went into a coma and died. The only reason I didn’t have a meltdown when I read that was because the woman was quite old, although it was a tragedy all the same.

[KansasCanadian]

Used to work there—Sedgwick County Zoo

[Paved Paradise]

It’s a good point you’re making. I remember reading awhile ago where a woman had hired a Mexican lady to clean, cook and so on and she instructed the woman to make a tuna salad for a ladies luncheon. Well, the woman started serving her “tuna” and thought it smelled funny. She went to her “helper” and the lady pulled the “tuna” cans out of the garbage and they were catfood cans with pictures of fish on them. Oops!

[JoeProBono]

[null and void]

The label probably was in English, I’d guess.

Bingo.

Another 'ill'egal success story...

[Moonman62]

[ex91B10]

So instead of keeping degreasing agents away from food areas...

SOP in every eatery I've worked in.

[JoeProBono]

[Secret Agent Man]

Good thing the elephant pee vat drain is on the other side of the zoo.

[OneWingedShark]

Meow!

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Time to stop letting the chimps run the refreshment stands.

[TheBattman]

Having been around sno-cone supplies several times in my life, I have never seen snow cone syrup and degreaser in matching containers...

Either someone put degreaser in a sno-cone syrup bottle, or someone was trying to poison someone.

Either that, or the employee couldn’t read English...

[TheBattman]

As far as I know, the health department demands that chemicals be kept away from foodstuff - and for them to be clearly labeled.

[ex91B10]

You are correct.

[RandallFlagg]

Snowcone?

[SunkenCiv]

a zoo employee accidentally poured a degreasing agent into the sno-cone machine instead of the flavored syrup

No wonder the floors are sticky.

[windcliff]

You would think that it would taste and smell odd unless you wolf down snow cones.

[dfwgator]

"Don't worry, they're lemon!"

[visualops]

Degreasers are basically detergents. However, sno-cones smell and taste sweet so one would have to notice immediately. It is idiotic to stop selling the cones when obviously the issue is incompetent or illiterate or non-English speaking employees. Then again if the training consisted of “when the dispenser gets low, fill it with the blue stuff in the cabinet”, then maybe they need to look higher up the chain as well lol

[metmom]

Sadly, there are many parents who wouldn’t listen to their kids complaints, or who don’t listen to them at all.

I could see some kid saying that it tasted funny and the parent saying it was just their imagination.

[scott7278]

You would think so, but stupidity ran in this day care center, too:

http://www.kxan.com/dpp/news/national/nat_ap_ark_kids_drink_wiper_fluid_at_daycare_200903139062254733

[visualops]

I could see some kid saying that it tasted funny and the parent saying it was just their imagination.

LOL that is funny because I might have said those very words myself a time or two (but not in a case of non-homecooked food) !

[visualops]

"I think the take-home message is not to have these products in the kitchen or where you're doing any kind of food preparation," she said.

Ya think?!? How on earth can you think washer fluid is koolaid? Those bottles are completely different from any prepackaged drinks.

[metmom]

It’s not like I haven’t probably said those words as well.

That’s why I thought some parents would have done it.