article_snippet: In it, the Prince railed about new hygiene laws in care homes that forbade volunteer workers from cooking meals in volunteer workers own homes and then taking volunteer workers to residential homes for the elderly or hospices to be reheated and served.
article_snippet: Pouring scorn on the legislation, the Prince wrote: ‘Many of these sorts of volunteers are middle-aged ladies who have cooked for these sorts of volunteers families for 40 years without poisoning anyone.
article_snippet: In order to protect the elderly from a tiny but theoretical risk, a whole section of volunteers is in danger of being alienated.
article_snippet: These sort of people will not volunteer if These sort of people are patronised or if regulation makes it impractical.
article_snippet: In the same letter, the Prince derided legislation, also affecting the preparation of food in care homes, which made staff throw away wooden chopping boards and replace wooden chopping boards with plastic ones colour-coded for meat, vegetables and fish – only to find wooden chopping boards had to change wooden chopping boards back again because wood turned out to be more hygienic than plastic.