KFC in court action

An Australian family sued KFC, claiming their daughter became brain damaged and crippled after eating a chicken wrap tainted with salmonella.

Their lawyer told the NSW state Supreme Court there was no doubt that Monika Samaan, then 7, developed salmonella poisoning from a chicken wrap bought from a KFC outlet in Sydney in 2005.

"There is little or no doubt that chicken was reported by all scientists, at the time of these unhappy events occurring, as being the source of that salmonella," lawyer Anthony Bartley said.

Officials for KFC could not be reached for comment.

The girl, now 11, attended court in a wheelchair. Bartley said she had acquired spastic quadriplegia and an intellectual disability.