Death by curry.

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Peanut curry death: Restaurant owner Mohammed Zaman jailed

beeb said:

A "reckless" restaurant owner has been jailed for six years for the manslaughter of a customer who had an allergic reaction to a curry.

Paul Wilson, 38, suffered a severe anaphylactic shock in January 2014 after eating a takeaway containing peanuts from the Indian Garden in Easingwold, North Yorkshire.

Mohammed Zaman, 52, was found guilty at Teesside Crown Court.

The court heard he cut corners by using cheaper ingredients containing peanuts.

In what is thought to be a landmark trial, Zaman, of Aylesham Court, Huntington, denied he was responsible but a jury was told he switched almond powder for a cheaper ground nut mix, which contained peanuts.

Mr Wilson, a bar manager from Helperby, North Yorkshire, specified "no nuts" when he ordered a chicken tikka masala - an instruction which was written on his order and on the lid of his takeaway, the court heard.

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Sentencing him, Judge Simon Bourne-Arton, the Recorder of Middlesbrough, said Zaman had remained "in complete and utter denial" and ignored warnings from officials after 17-year-old Ruby Scott suffered a reaction to a curry, three weeks before Mr Wilson's death.

He said he had thrown away his successful business and property portfolio worth £2m "in pursuit of profit"

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Fugazi said:

Peanuts aren't actually nuts, they belong to the legume family, like peas and beans. So you can actually be allergic to peanuts but not tree nuts and vice-versa. Although I believe they both contain similar proteins and you can be allergic to both. Incidentally this is also why you see 'warning, may contain nuts' on bags of peanuts as they're both handled in the same factories.

Interesting points.

According to some studies "25 to 40 percent of people who have a peanut allergy are also allergic to tree nuts".

I suppose it depends on what the customer actually said, Was it "no nuts please" or "no peanuts please". All the media reports state that he said “no nuts”.

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In a survey study published in the December 2003 issue of "The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology," researchers at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine compared the results of peanut and tree-nut allergy surveys taken in 2002 to estimates obtained five years earlier. They concluded that reported peanut allergies doubled among children from 1997 to 2002. The same researchers repeated the survey method to compare the occurrence of peanut, tree-nut and sesame allergies in 2008 to their occurrence in surveys conducted in 1997 and 2002. Their findings, published in the June 2010 issue of the "The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology," indicate that greater than 1 percent of the U.S. population, including an increased number of children, report peanut, tree-nut or both allergies. Sesame allergy is reported much less commonly. Based on these survey studies, researchers estimate that 25 to 40 percent of people who have a peanut allergy are also allergic to tree nuts

http://www.livestrong.com/article/530128-can-i-eat-almonds-if-i-have-peanut-allergies/

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Another similar case.

“Two men appear in Blackburn court over nut allergy death
Mohammed Kuddus and Harun Rashid charged with manslaughter of Megan Lee, 15, who died after allergic reaction to meal”

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com...