[Ansteorra] Answers to Questions-Waterbearer proposal

[Susan McMahill]

Actually, Sir Lyonel, that's what Public Health Bureaus do. It is their job to respond to every reported case of food borne illness. It is the law for physicians and facilities to report suspected food poisoning and related illnesses to the PHBs. This includes such things as Hepatitis A along with the ones we hear about in the news and a host we don't hear about.
 
>From what I've seen, Ansteorra's waterbearers have very little to worry about as far as I can tell. I know that the waterbearers that I know and have worked with have sanitation issues dealt with and I have no worries about catching something from one of them. Where I have some concerns, however, is that everyone takes pickles, oranges, pretzles, etc from a common bowl/dish and hand washing facilities for folks are few and far between. I'm more worried about the kid who takes a handful and was playing in the dirt or a fighter who just visited the portajohn and didn't have hand sanitizer than the volunteers.
 
Other than having our waterbearers no longer being an officially sanctioned group of officers, I don't see that much really
has to change. HL Aingeal Mac an Ghabhann and the folks that deal with this directly seem to have the issue well in hand and very matter of factly. I am confident that most of us will not see any real differences on the field, thanks to their good work and willingness to handle the issue professionally. 
 
Lyneya de Grey

 
 
 



tmail.com> To: ansteorra at lists.ansteorra.org> Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:17:03 +0000> Subject: Re: [Ansteorra] Answers to Questions-Waterbearer proposal> > Salut cozyns,> > No, I don't believe that's true. Public health bureaux have enough to do without jumping to respond to every reported food poisoning incident. > > And we've had soooooo many waterbearer-related salmonella incidents. > > This is a tempest in a teapot.> > En Lyonel > _________________________________ > Impedimentum via est (The obstacle is the path)> > > > > From: sueorintx at hotmail.com> To: ansteorra at lists.ansteorra.org> Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 09:57:14 -0500> Subject: Re: [Ansteorra] Answers to Questions-Waterbearer proposal> > They may not be able to inspect but they would still investigate. Lots of questions and possible testing would be done of items used for service. You can bet that if there were several folks that got sick, we would be getting a whole lot of unwanted attention.> > Lyneya> Well-behaved women Seldom make history - Laurel Thatcher Ulrich> > > > > From: sirlyonel at hotmail.com> To: ansteorra at lists.ansteorra.org> Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 14:49:30 +0000> Subject: Re: [Ansteorra] Answers to Questions-Waterbearer proposal> > Salut cozyns,> > I think it's a bit far-fetched, though, to think that someone showing up at a hospital ER with food poisoning would result in public health inspections for our events. By the time the public health folks got wind of it, the event would be over.> En Lyonel > _________________________________ > Impedimentum via est (The obstacle is the path)> > > > > Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 08:12:23 -0500> From: engtrktwo at gmail.com> To: ansteorra at lists.ansteorra.org> Subject: Re: [Ansteorra] Answers to Questions-Waterbearer proposal> > Sir Lyonel,> > I do not claim any direct knowledge of the public health system, or local> heal codes.> > However, I have seen a massive increase in the number of media reported food> sickness related events over the past few years.> > That fact alone tells me that public awar> eness of food-born illness is up.> If one of our members walks into a hospital with food poisoning after an> event, even if we are ultimately cleared of any responsibility, I do not> want to guess what the negative effects will be on us.> > I appreciate that it has not happened yet, and I certainty do not want to be> alarmist on the issue. But the world, the US, and even Ansteorra are a> changing place, and we must not forget that fact.> > Lord Ivo Blackhawk.> > > > Has any SCA function ever been subjected to a public health inspection> ?> >> > En Lyonel> > _________________________________> > Impedimentum via est (The obstacle is the path)> >> >> _______________________________________________> Ansteorra mailing list> Ansteorra at lists.ansteorra.org> http://lists.ansteorra.org/listinfo.cgi/ansteorra-ansteorra.org> _________________________________________________________________> Introducing Live Search cashback . It's search that pays you back!> http://search.live.com/cashba> ck/?&pkw=form=MIJAAF/publ=HMTGL/crea=introsrchcashback> _______________________________________________> Ansteorra mailing list> Ansteorra at lists.ansteorra.org> http://lists.ansteorra.org/listinfo.cgi/ansteorra-ansteorra.org> _______________________________________________> Ansteorra mailing list> Ansteorra at lists.ansteorra.org> http://lists.ansteorra.org/listinfo.cgi/ansteorra-ansteorra.org> _________________________________________________________________> The other season of giving begins 6/24/08. Check out the i’m Talkathon.> http://www.imtalkathon.com?source=TXT_EML_WLH_SeasonOfGiving> _______________________________________________> Ansteorra mailing list> Ansteorra at lists.ansteorra.org> http://lists.ansteorra.org/listinfo.cgi/ansteorra-ansteorra.org