Five bridges, six schools, 78 roads, and 2,225 rai (880 acres) of farmland are under water in Thailand’s deep South.
Victims of the flooding have been given relief kits that included cans of fish that TOC News described as “rotten.”
Several residents dumped the cans in front of their City Hall in protest.
Thailand’s The Nation reported hundreds of flood victims became sick from apparent food poisoning linked to the donated fish.
The Nation explains that Thailand’s FDA “is studying the legal process on whether to charge the company for violating the law by illegally producing canned fish and other canned food items after its factory was closed by the local public health office due to a substandard production process and producing poor quality products.”
America’s Good Samaritan law protects people that donate food to those in the event it accidentally makes someone sick.
Of course, the law stipulates that the donor cannot consciously and voluntarily offer any food that is “likely to be harmful to the health and well-being of another person.”
The manufacturer of the assumedly improperly canned fish “could face a fine of up to Bt30,000 and see bosses jailed for up to three years due to the substandard factory. It could also face a fine of Bt50,000 to Bt100,000, plus jail terms of six months to 10 years for the firm’s bosses for fraudulent food production or fake labeling.”
Nice try, guys. Flood victims deserve safe food, too.