We have got another one–the food contamination reports are oozing out like anything else. It has been reported that the Marion County Health Department in cooperation with Olive Garden has closed a Castleton area restaurant. The move was on behalf of three people who were hospitalized and nearly 300 people who claimed that they got sick after eating in that restaurant. The health department had received many complaints and the complaints continued to be registered this afternoon from people who ate at the restaurant from last Saturday through Wednesday.

Well, it is one of those food contamination problem that we have been facing for quite a while now–the cause of this particular sickness has not yet been determined, but there is clear admittance of the fact that it is indeed a food borne illness, which again raises the pointer on health regulations that need to be set by the government, and heats the debate about the measure undertaken by the government to tackle such problems.

It is clear that the decision to close the restaurant was taken to break the chain of infection that has snared around 300 people, and also to make thorough investigations about the cause of the infection. The decision about the reopening of the restaurant would be taken on Monday. 

Well, it is one of those matters that bring us to our old problem–what the government can do to tackle such kind of problems, and what the consumers do at their end? It seems that nobody is at fault and the problem is occurring on its own. However, there are still some security measures and regulations that can be undertaken to reduce the frequency of the infected food problems that have caused problems to the consumers in various parts of the country. The government certainly can check the rate of these infections by implementing stern and stiff regulations.