12-year-old girl dies from drinking milkshake after cafes careless mistake

Mia Shay St.Hilaire was visiting a cafe in London with her aunt and sister when she ordered the Twix milkshake that would take her life.The 12-year-old shouldn’t have been allergic to the drink.

But after having some, she “developed rapidly progressing anaphylaxis,” a reaction that affects multiple body systems at once, a coroner’s report determined.She “later collapsed at her aunt’s home.” The child received emergency treatment and was transferred to the intensive care unit at Evelina London Children’s Hospital where she died, the coroner’s office said Thursday.St.Hilaire had a life-threatening tree nut allergy.

But Pop Inn cafe owner Baris Yucel had just used the same blender to make a hazelnut-containing Kinder Bueno milkshake — and didn’t wash it before preparing St.Hilaire’s order.The Independent reports that CCTV captured Yucel making St.

Hilaire’s milkshake without cleaning the blender before.“No family should ever have to lose a child in these circumstances,” the girl’s parents said in a statement.“If the local authority had ensured that the cafe’s allergy management responsibilities had been properly understood, and put into practice, we believe Mia would still be alive today.”“We want to make sure that change is Mia’s legacy so that we can help to save lives in the future … Mia was, and is, deeply loved and she will never be forgotten.”After St.

Hilaire died in August 2023, the cafe was fined £18,000 (about $24,000).Yucel admitted to six violations of the Food Safety Act, including not making allergen advice available or visible to customers, failing to manage contamination during food production, and serving food that contained an allergenic ingredient that was not supposed to be present.He was ordered to serve 100 hours of community service and no longer owns or operates the cafe.“The Judge accepted that Mr.Yucel had shown genuine remorse,” Yucel’s lawyer told Southwark News.

“He took immediate ...