Sixty-two migrant workers who suffered food poisoning after
eating at a Shanghai construction site cafeteria were sickened by
food contaminated by bacteria, the city's food and drug agency said
Tuesday.
The Shanghai food and drug watchdog analyzed food at the
cafeteria at the construction site of the Shanghai Xinwei commerce
and trade plaza after receiving reports that more than 60 workers
were ill on Tuesday, and found that chicken and pork might be the
source of the poisoning.
The workers were hospitalized after eating at the cafeteria on
Monday evening. They developed cramps and diarrhea and were taken
to hospital on Tuesday morning after being diagnosed with food
poisoning.
All the workers have been discharged after receiving treatment
at the hospital.
The cafeteria has been closed and the exact cause of the
incident is still under investigation.
The incident follows two other mass poisonings this month.
On Monday, 19 middle-school students were hospitalized with
suspected food poisoning after eating lunch in a school cafeteria
in Changchun, capital of northeast China's Jilin Province.
On April 9, more than 200 people fell ill and one person died in
Harbin in northeastern China after they ate a hospital breakfast
suspected of being contaminated with rat poison.
(Xinhua News Agency April 18, 2007)