THE APPEAL would send an echelon today Monday to the factory of the “Giannitsi” company in the industrial area of ​​Lamia, which was completely burnt, as the president of the Unified Agency revealed to ERTNews Antonis Zambelas.

It is recalled that the specific factory had prepared the school lunches from which it was caused two days ago mass food poisoning among local schoolchildren. The fire broke out on Sunday night.

As stated by Mr. Zambelas, the inspection was scheduled for today, while a team from EFET had also gone on Saturday, but the production line was closed since the schools were closed.

Specifically, his detailed statement was: “We, after the information we had from EODY, this of course happened last week, on Friday, we went to the company on Saturday when it was active. It’s just that the production line that deals with the meals for the schools was not working because on weekends the schools don’t work. So we had planned to do a check early this week to see that course as well, how it’s going, how it’s working.

This check will be done, apparently as a whole it can no longer be done. Tomorrow we will go though, because there was some information that tells us that it could partially reopen and because we don’t have an image we didn’t go today, we will go tomorrow to have an image from the company as well, that is, what has been destroyed, what is left standing and what if something can be saved and where we can also get involved.

So tomorrow we have organized an on-site inspection, which of course we can do, as well as going to two schools and another business that makes mincemeat, which supplied the catering business. In other words, we still have a long way to go to have an overall picture.

Asked if it could be an accidental fire, an accidental fire, he replied: “I can’t judge that. I think it is now the responsibility of the Fire Department and the Police. The direct supervision of the meals and some analyzes that have been launched, is the EODY, he has collected some meals that were left, he has sent them for analyses, so we are also waiting for the results.

Just what I would like to say is that we had gone about a year ago to check this company out and found them to be a decent company.
We also made some recommendations on what could be improved.

In one direction you suggest that temperatures should be observed and even more so that temperatures should be controlled when thermoboxed meals are delivered to schools.
These were the recommendations that we had said, it was not a company, at least the image we had then, that it is problematic. Now, of course, it’s been a year since then.”

Fire at the company "Giannitsi{"

Staphylococcus was found in school meal samples

Staphylococcus show the first results from the EODY regional public health laboratory in Thessaly on 10 samples from the meals that caused the poisoning of the children in Thessaly.

The overall laboratory results are expected on Wednesday while the epidemiological investigation continues.

Order of the Supreme Court to investigate the causes of the fire at the factory

Supreme Court Prosecutor Georgia Adelini sent an order to the Lamia First Instance Prosecutor’s Office to investigate the causes of the fire which, according to electronic press reports, completely destroyed the factory of the “Giannitsi” company in the industrial area of ​​Lamia.

Specifically, according to a relevant announcement, the prosecutor of the Supreme Court states: “Please investigate the cause of the fire which, according to reports in the electronic press, on Sunday 19-5-2024 completely destroyed the factory of the company “Giannitsi” in the industrial area of ​​Lamia in connection with the fact that the specific factory was involved with the school lunches that led to the hospital primary school students schools, due to mass food poisoning. And let us know about it.”