SA: Orange juice salmonella payout expected to total $5 million

AAP General News (Australia)
02-05-2001
SA: Orange juice salmonella payout expected to total $5 million

ADELAIDE, Feb 5 AAP - An orange juice company liable for a salmonella outbreak in Adelaide
in 1999 faces a $5 million compensation payout to an estimated 500 people.

A provisional settlement plan was outlined by the Federal Court today for the class
action against Knispel Fruit Juices, which trades under the name Nippy's, over the outbreak
in March 1999.

The court is expected to give approval to the plan on March 22.

Nippy's admitted in court earlier this year it had released juice contaminated with
a strain of salmonella …