25-year-old Alyssa Lee was left with intestinal infections and a parasite in her digestive tract after eating undercooked chicken from KFC.
The mother-of-one had bought chicken from the fast-food restaurant near Townsville. She claims she had eaten two pieces of the chicken when she noticed it appeared undercooked.
Lee then contacted the store but couldn’t get through. “’Finally on the second day of trying someone answered and they asked me to send through the pictures,” she said. “I sent them through to a mobile number and didn’t receive a reply so I went down to the store.”
The manager filled out a report and asked if she wanted a replacement or refund.
“I said I wanted a refund because I wasn’t interested in eating KFC any more as it put me off,” she said.
The manager confirmed that the piece was a thigh and told her “what’s probably happened is the chef hasn’t popped the bone and then she screwed the incident form up.”
But things escalated from there and the incident left her violently ill. “’When it was worst, I had my head in a toilet bowl most of the day. If I wasn’t in the toilet I was in bed. I had to ask friends and family to look after my son because I couldn’t.”
Her symptoms worsened and she was diagnosed with intestinal infections norovirus, sapa virus, and stomach flu, and also Giardia Intestanils (parasite).
“I didn’t do this for money. I’ve never claimed for compensation in my life. No one in my family would do this for money,” she explained.
“I want to prove negligence because what is happening is disgusting. Since my food poisoning, I have heard so many worrying similar stories.
“I was sick for about four weeks and had to go on three rounds of medication but I still experience bouts of nausea and vomiting now – three months on.”
A spokesperson for KFC said to Daily Mail they do not believe the mother’s illness was caused by their chicken.
“We are sorry to learn of Mrs Lee’s illness, but we do not believe this was caused by KFC,” said the spokesman. “As this is a legal issue, we cannot comment further.”
Glenn Brown, Lee’s lawyer, said: “We believe consumers have a right to expect that the foods they purchase and consume will be safe and of high quality. Stringent consumer law protections exist in Queensland for that very reason, and we are there to assist those who have been injured when those standards are not met.”
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