Mass poisoning at Chinese kindergarten; 2 dead, 30 sick

[Redfairen]

Source: Associated Press

Two children died and another 30 were sickened in a mass poisoning at a kindergarten in southwestern China, authorities said Friday.

Investigators identified the toxic substance as a powerful rat poison, but did not yet know how it had been ingested Wednesday in the kindergarten in Yunnan province's rural Qiubei county, according to a statement from the provincial government.

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Apart from the victims, aged 4 and 5, another six children remained hospitalized while the others had been released and returned home.

It wasn't clear whether the poisoning was intentional or an accident.


Read more: http://www.ctvnews.ca/mobile/world/mass-poisoning-at-chinese-kindergarten-2-dead-30-sick-1.1739563

[LiberalEsto]

1. How awful

The poor kids and their families.

[Auntie Bush]

2. Next, some of their food shipped here will have the same problem.

Beware of all China exports!

[840high]

4. Any food from China does

not go to my house.

[awoke_in_2003]

7. Unfortunately

food companies are fighting to eliminate country of origin labels.

[840high]

8. Shame on them.

[Nanjing to Seoul]

10. Food from China comes into my house and no one died. Maybe that's because

I live in China.

[840high]

12. Keep being well.

[womanofthehills]

13. US food manufacturers use Chinese ingredients

"Chinese-made ingredients are probably found in every aisle of American supermarkets. Consider that American favorite, the Hostess Twinkie. Of its 39 ingredients, at least half a dozen — such as vitamin B compounds, the preservative sorbic acid and red and yellow colorings — are most likely made in China, says Steve Ettlinger, author of the book, "Twinkie, Deconstructed.""

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-chinafood18may18,0,2166175.story#ixzz2wfWYhPoF


also many of our food items have citric acid and China is the largest distributor of citric acid.

[Kablooie]

14. The US gov recently OKd American chicken companies ...

Shipping their chicken to China for processing for the American market.

[jsr]

3. Horrific.

[JoeyT]

5. Possibly caused by reusing containers.

People get exposed to all kinds of nasty stuff that way, and it isn't particularly uncommon.

[Blue_Tires]

6. Which is what happened in India:

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/indian-cops-suspect-cooking-oil-container-held-pesticide-school-poisoning-v19559071

[Nanjing to Seoul]

11. they reuse oil to cook here in china, so it wouldn't surprise me in the least

alot of the cooking traditions and techniques are completely unsanitary. My apartment is upstairs from a number of restaurants here in Suzhou. When I walk behind them and see into the kitchen (because the door is wide open and flies are coming in), you see things that would make a rat say "pass."

[Auntie Bush]

17. That's sickening to know when so much of our food comes frm China.

In fact it's down right scary.

[LeftishBrit]

9. Truly horrible

[Cha]

15. How horrifying!

[Rhiannon12866]

16. This is just terrible!

My parents visited China and told about how valued these "one" children are...