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Chelsea Sugar (also known as the New Zealand Sugar Company) has been fined $149,500 for importing and selling sugar products tainted with lead.

More than 970 tonnes of products were manufactured from sugar contaminated during sea transportation from Australia, resulting in the company recalling thousands of products in late 2021.

Two more recalls were needed when it was revealed incorrect information was provided to supermarkets resulting in more tainted goods being released to consumers.

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[–] Dave 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What if the mistake didn't kill anyone?

Also I disagree that those examples would get you fired. They are examples of times when you might get you fired, but this isn't the US, there would need to be due process. There are plenty of times when losing money wouldn't necessarily get you fired (finance industry comes to mind), and even some circumstances when killing someone wouldn't necessarily get you fired (certain circumstances for commercial drivers come to mind).

The devil is in the detail.

[–] BalpeenHammer 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What if the mistake didn’t kill anyone?

Depends on the mistake like I said. I know people who were fired for messing up an important contract. I know people who were fired for deleting a database in production. One time somebody I know got fired because he posted something embarrassing about the CEO of the company.

As an employee your employer can fire you for lots of reasons.

[–] Dave 1 points 1 week ago

Yeah, my starting point in this post was giving them the benefit of the doubt, because it depends on the detail. But then it seemed I didn't absorb the article properly because it seems the detail does not look good for Chelsea.