Unboxing outrage: How a ‘dangerous’ food sanitizer is profiting off a child’s illness | Marketplace

Описание: Lucas Parker was permanently brain damaged after eating lettuce contaminated with E. coli in 2018. Now, a bogus product that claims to remove everything from pesticides to bacteria, including E. coli, from your food is exploiting Lucas’s story for profit. We test one of the devices in a lab and discover not only is the product we bought no more effective than tap water — it's outright dangerous.

And one of the faces promoting that machine is an actor from Fiverr, an online marketplace for freelance services, who is willing to dress up like a doctor to make recommendations. CBC’s Marketplace put him to the test to see how far he’ll go to advertise bogus children's medicine.

#Marketplace #Investigation #Health

00:00 - Intro
02:05 - Lucas Parker’s story
06:52 - Testing the bogus food sanitizer
10:46 - Searching for the possible fugitive behind the product
12:09 - Fiverr: A paid actor wearing a lab coat promotes the product
17:33 - Lal Palliyaguru responds to the claims

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PROFITING OFF PAIN

producer/director
GREG SADLER

associate producer
JENNY COWLEY

reporter
ASHA TOMLINSON

editor
AARON TAYLOR

camera
DAVID MACINTOSH

additional footage
AMAZING WATER INC.
FIVERR
POND5

media management
ASTORIA LUZZI

social media producers
CAROLINE GDYCZYNSKI
BRITT PURDY

colour correction
KYLE J. SMITH

sound mix
DANY TREMBLAY

resource coordinators
MARC CORMIER
DRAGAN MARICIC

news rollout associate producer
DEXTER McMILLAN

promo producer
GREG SADLER

senior producer
TIFFANY FOXCROFT

FIRST BROADCAST November 22, 2024