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His son’s brain was damaged by E. coli. Now someone is exploiting their story to sell a questionable product
As a toddler, Lucas Parker ate salad that had been contaminated with E. coli. He lost the ability to walk, talk and it affected his eyesight. Now eight, the boy’s story is being used without his family’s permission to market a food sanitizer.
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 …
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