"I am so sorry that I have not been able to write before - I have wanted to contact you personally for many months, ever since the problem first emerged, but I was advised by the official bodies carrying out the investigation, our lawyers and insurers, that I could not do so until both the factual and legal situation had been established. The effects of February this year were devastating to me and my whole team, as they were to many of our guests, and I wish to invite them all to return to The Fat Duck at their convenience", the letter read.
However he refused to take the blame for the incident after Health Protection Agency's (HPA) report revealed that the raw shellfish served was tainted with human sewage. Instead both Blumenthal and his insurers have blamed the local water authority along with the supplier who had sent the shellfish.
Source: Medindia
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