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Staph found in school meals linked to mass food poisoning

Strains of the staphylococcus bacteria have been detected in samples of school lunches that allegedly caused mass food poisoning among dozens of primary schoolchildren in the city of Lamia last week.

According to state broadcaster ERT, staph was identified in ten food samples sent to the regional National Public Health Organization laboratory in Thessaly.

Prosecutor orders investigation into fire at catering factory linked to mass food poisoning in schools

A Supreme Court prosecutor has ordered officials in Lamia to investigate the causes of a fire that completely destroyed the factory of a catering company that has been linked to an outbreak of food poisoning among primary schoolchildren.

The Giannitsis factory, which was located in an industrial part of the Central Greece city, was completely gutted in a fire on Sunday evening.

Judicial race against time for Mati ruling review

In the wake of the public outcry sparked by the lenient sentencing of those defendants found guilty in the trial over the state apparatus' handling of the deadly Mati fire in 2018, the Supreme Court prosecutor Georgia Adelini has instructed the head of the Athens Appeals Prosecutor's Office, Kalliopi Vardaki, to scrutinize the decision and the case file in order to immediately file an appeal wi

Supreme Court moves to appeal Mati wildfire court decision

Supreme Court Prosecutor Georgia Adelini instructed the Prosecutor of the Athens Appeals Court to explore the possibility of appealing the court's decision on the Mati wildfire case.

On July 13, 2018, a wildfire in Mati, a village on the east coast of the Attica region, took 104 lives and injured many. 

Supreme Court urges swifter handling of Mati wildfire verdict

The President of the Supreme Court, Ioanna Klapa Christodoulea, seeks swift processing of Monday's ruling by the Athens Three-Member Misdemeanor Court concerning the 2018 Mati wildfires, which claimed 104 lives and left many injured, to prevent potential criminal offenses from expiring. 

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