Posted: May 27th, 2009 - 11:07am by Doug Powell

A brewery has been fined £5,100 after guests at a wedding reception were struck down with a serious outbreak of food poising.

Young & Co's Brewery plc, who operate the Bull's Head in Chislehurst, admitted to three food hygiene offences that caused 29 guests at a wedding to be ill.

The officers found that the wedding reception menu contained homemade chicken liver pate and a soft-centred chocolate pudding made from un-pasteurised eggs.

The paté had been cooked the previous day using a new cooker and was probably undercooked as cooking times and temperatures had not been reassessed for the new cooker.

A faulty fridge was also found to be in use in the kitchen.