Download 2024: Food stalls were shut down as “hundreds” of festival-goers fell ill with food poisoning
nme.comDownload 2024 were shut down as “hundreds” of festival goers fell ill with food poisoning.This year’s instalment of the metal and rock festival took place over the past weekend, running between June 14-16, and featured the headliners Queens Of The Stone Age, Fall Out Boy and Avenged Sevenfold.However, as the event unfolded, numerous attendees began reporting symptoms of food poisoning – including nausea, stomach cramps, fever, and general malaise.
According to reports from a medical tent on site (via FoodPoisoningNews), as many as 500 people were affected by what they described as a “real food poisoning epidemic”.Speaking to BBC News, a spokesperson for the North West Leicestershire District Council (NWLDC) said medics began to see “a pattern” of fans falling ill, prompting event organiser Live Nation to launch an investigation.Live Nation said that customer safety was its “primary concern” and confirmed that all food traders had been inspected before and during the event.
The promotor added that two vendors “were closed and removed from the site as they failed to meet the standards of Environment Health and the local authority” (via LeicestershireLive).Among those who reported illness were artists performing at the event, including Sean Smith – frontman of The Raiders – who revealed that he was hospitalised after the event and was put on an IV drip due to food poisoning.Got food poisoning.
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