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A court in Australia has the fast-food restaurant Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) to pay $8.3m compensation to the family of a seven-year-old girl. The was left severely brain damaged after eating a KFC Chicken Twister that salmonella poisoning. Little Monika Samaan became ill after eating the sandwich at a Sydney restaurant in 2005. She has been confined to a wheelchair with brain damage and is to speak. Monika's father told the court that he and his family all ill with vomiting and diarrhoea after sharing the Twister. Monika’s parents and brother all , but she stayed in a for six months and was in hospital for seven.

KFC it was responsible for Monika’s condition and said it would not pay a cent in damages. It said it was “ disappointed” by the decision and to appeal. The company’s lawyer argued the trial that the family never bought a Twister. He told the court there was no sales to prove the family purchased one. He told Mr Samaan: “You did not tell anyone at the hospital…that you had shared a KFC Twister.” employees told the court about the unsanitary practices at the . One said: “If the store was particularly busy, then if chicken dropped on the floor ... it was on some occasions put back into the burger station from where it had fallen.”

 

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