Leanne Raymond reports that a food poisoning scare has hit three residences of the University of Cape Town with more than 40 students who share a dining hall falling ill with vomiting and diarrhoea.
A concerned parent, who preferred not to be named, told the Cape Times students became ill on Tuesday night and then again on Wednesday night. One student was taken to hospital.
Ludwe Mbhele, head of the house committee at the University House Residence, said: “Students started getting sick (on Tuesday) from the University House Dining Hall. The catering company has sent a sample to their lab in Johannesburg for testing. They are not sure where it is coming from, the food or the cutlery. It started on Tuesday and the numbers (of ill students) just increased.”Continue Reading UCT food poisoning scare as 40 students become ill
Food poisons 170 students in Henan
Nearly 170 students of a Henan Province primary school were rushed to hospital for food poisoning on Thursday. A few patients were in serious condition.
The victims suffered vomiting, stomachache and headache about one hour after lunch at a campus canteen in Anyang County. The meal included kidney beans, chicken, potatoes and rice. In another
344 students, teachers sickened from food poisoning in Jilin
A total of 344 students and teachers in a primary school fell sick after eating suspected poisonous food in Jiutai, a city in northeast China’s Jilin Province, on Thursday.
About 700 students and teachers in the Jiutai Experimental Primary School had lunch at the school dinning-room. At 3:00 p.m., some of the students and teachers
Nearly 20 students become ill at Plano school
NBC 5 News reports that the Collin County Health Department is investigating the sudden illness of several Plano fifth-graders.
Officials told NBC 5 that 19 students at Plano’s Hedgcoxe Elementary School became ill on Wednesday, complaining of nausea and vomiting.
One student was hospitalized with dehydration. That student’s mother said her daughter is expected to
Company ordered to pay school district over tainted poultry
Jim Suhr of the Associated Press reports that a Metro East trucking and distribution company that delivered tainted chicken to a Joliet elementary school in 2002, sickening more than 150 children and teachers, has been ordered to pay $277,250 in fines and restitution.
As part of Thursday’s federal sentence, prosecutors said, Madison-based Lanter Co. will pay $175,000 to the Laraway School District, which will use the funds for new textbooks and enhanced computer technology. The company also must pay $100,000 to the Land of Lincoln Legal Assistance Foundation, as well as $2,250 in fines.
The company will remain on probation until it makes full restitution, which includes compensatory payouts to victims of the Joliet food poisoning.
Lanter, which had been under contract by the Illinois State Board of Education to store and deliver food to schools statewide, pleaded guilty in March to charges that it transported misbranded, improperly inspected poultry products.Continue Reading Company ordered to pay school district over tainted poultry
Vigil As Eight Falls To Food Poisoning This Year
Azlan Othman of the Borneo Bulletin reports that Brunei has recorded eight food poisoning outbreaks this year. A family, six schools and another victim fell victim to food poisoning, officials from the Health Services Department revealed.
Meanwhile 127 cases of food poisoning were recorded to date this year, up from 67 cases last year. The lowest cases recorded were in 2000 with only 50 cases.
Officials from the Health Services Department to food suppliers highlighted the cases in a briefing to food suppliers on Monday.Continue Reading Vigil As Eight Falls To Food Poisoning This Year
84 schoolchildren sick after food poisoning
The Star News reports that eighty-eight pupils of SK Methodist suffered from nausea and stomachache after eating food at their school canteen in Tanjung Rambutan. The school children complained of feeling ill shortly after their morning recess Friday.
State Health, Science and Environment Committee chairman Datuk Tan Chin Meng said the school sent the pupils