18 year old Gaby Scanlon was celebrating her 18th birthday like any other regular teenager, when she found herself in the horrific position of becoming breathless while on her night out.
Gaby had drunk a cocktail containing an amount of Liquid Nitrogen leading to a hospital admission where doctors had to perform surgery to remove part of her stomach. Doctors have said that she would have died if the surgery was not performed, the bar has now stopped serving the lethal cocktail.
The substance is often used in the preparation of drinks in order to freeze the glasses made increasingly popular by the television chef Heston Blumenthal. However the substance is fine to prepare glasses and the making of ice creams but should never be ingested as it can cause severe frostbite or burns when it comes into contact with tissue.
Like any other 19 year old student myself and friends go out and drink a little too much, what shocked me and attracted me to this story is why do we not question what we drink on nights out? Should we make sure we are more careful?
Drinks should be made safely and we should be more aware of what's being put in them. We already have to be wary of drinks being spiked which from previous experience is not a nice one therefore we shouldn't have to worry what the bartenders are putting in them as well.
The Food Standards Agency says that bars and clubs have a legal obligation to ensure that anything served to the public is to be fit for human consumption but surely after this story more has to be done.
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