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The Provincial Prosecutor's Office of Valencia has asked the Court of Instruction number 1 to file the case opened last February for the death of a woman after eating with her family at the Riff restaurant, seeing no relationship between the death and the gastroenteritis she suffered .

This is clear from the tax document, consulted by Europa Press. The victim, 46, died in February after eating at the Riff . Her husband and 12-year-old son also had intoxication but with a good evolution.

After the death, the court opened an investigation in case there was a relationship between the food intake of mushrooms called colmenillas and the possibility that they caused a picture of gastroenteritis that eventually led to the fatal outcome.

The histopathological study of women and the final autopsy report indicate that death resulted from a pathological process of the deceased . They consider that they possibly suffered from gastroenteritis related to the previous consumption of mushrooms, but they believe that it was not serious enough to be a fundamental cause of death.

In this regard, they detail that the deceased already suffered previous brain and renal alterations that could trigger sudden death, in this case in the context of an acute gastroenteritis complicated with broscoaspiration or cardiac arrhythmia and subsequent agonized bronchoaspiration.

Toxicology tests show that mushrooms of the species consumed may have some levels of toxicity , and produce some cases among those found in the gastrointestinal, although in most cases they disappear spontaneously in 90% of patients , that is to say, they cannot be described as serious and the possible mortality by them is not mentioned in the said report.

Therefore, it is concluded that it cannot be affirmed that the gastroenteritis hypothetically caused by the ingestion of the canine mushrooms is a direct and unique cause of death.

And it is stressed that the deceased woman had a previous ailment , unknown by the assumptions involved in the eventual imprudence, which concurs as a fundamental cause of her death in conjunction with the gastroenteritis picture.

The prosecutor understands that in this case there is no dangerous conduct by any person in the act of serving and cooking a "completely regular" food and admitted by existing regulations.

In addition, it emphasizes that the exact etiology of gastroenteritis has not been determined. "And what is decisive, there is another unpredictable cause, not previously known and not attributable to the hypothetical author of the event, such as the disease suffered by the deceased and that has been a determinant of death, which prevents that lethal consequence can be attributed to the original action and, therefore, charged to the subject that gave rise to food intake in this case, "he maintains.

For everything, the public prosecutor demands the provisional dismissal of the proceedings.

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