A farm supervisor in Queensland accused of putting needles into strawberries, sparking an industry crisis, has had the charges against her dropped.
My Ut Trinh had been due to face trial this week, charged with six counts of contamination of goods with intent to cause economic loss over the alleged punnet sabotage.
https://twitter.com/SallyGyte/status/1415103802605146116?ref_src=twsrc%5EtfwPolice had alleged they had identified Ms Trinh's DNA on a needle found in a strawberry punnet in Victoria, a court has previously been told.
She was working at Berrylicious in her hometown of Caboolture, north of Brisbane, between September 2 and 7, 2018.
A man found a needle when he bit into a contaminated strawberry on September 9 of that same year, sparking a national food safety frenzy with strawberries stripped from shelves nationwide.
The court previously heard more than 240 copycat incidents were reported after the initial incident and almost 70 strawberry brands were affected.
Ms Trinh had been facing up to 10 years' imprisonment if convicted.
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