His son’s brain was damaged by E. coli. Now someone is exploiting their story to sell a questionable product – CBC

Amazing Water’s food sanitizer emitted dangerous levels of ozone in Marketplace test

Nov 22, 2024

It’s lunchtime in the Parker home in Richmond, B.C. But before eight-year-old Lucas can be fed, his dad checks the boy’s blood sugar levels. Nathan Parker figures out the dosages for his son’s medications and fills a small plastic bag with liquid nutrition that will be delivered through a feeding tube into Lucas’s belly.

“One day,” Parker says to his son, “Come on, let’s get to steak and potatoes, OK? I think you’d be tired of this food by now? I know I would be.”

But that day is not coming. Lucas is considered to be one of the most severely injured survivors of a food-borne illness.

CBC Marketplace did a story about Lucas in 2021, while investigating a rash of E. coli outbreaks involving romaine lettuce in the U.S.

Earlier this year, Parker was looking to show a friend that piece, but he found something else — Lucas’s life story was being used to sell a machine called the Amazing Water Multifunctional Food Sanitizer for $256.

Read more: https://www.cbc.ca/news/marketplace/food-sanitizer-marketplace-1.7388584