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The supplier apologizes for the food poisoning caused by thousands of teachers and students in the school feeding milk in Toyama City, Japan: very regretful
[Global Times Comprehensive Report]According to a report on the website of the Japan Broadcasting Association (NHK) on the 19th, in response to the mass food poisoning incident on campus in Toyama City, the Toyama City Health Center announced the same day that the cause of food poisoning among students was the problem of feeding milk. Milk supplier Uchida Dairy Company ceased operations.
According to the report, from June 17 to 18, a total of 1,212 students and teachers in 6 kindergartens, 16 elementary and middle schools, and 2 high schools in Toyama City developed symptoms such as diarrhea, abdominal pain, and vomiting. One of them was hospitalized. Toyama City Board of Education Deputy Director Hidetoshi Okubo said on the 17th, “We deeply apologize to students, faculty, staff, and parents for such a tragic incident.” The Toyama City Board of Education analyzed that it caused collective diarrhea among students and teachers. Symptoms such as, abdominal pain, etc., may be due to food poisoning, but it is not clear which link has the problem.
On June 19, the Toyama City Health Center held a press conference to announce that the cause of the uncomfortable symptoms of a large number of students and teachers was that the storage milk tanks and the tubes connected to the milk tanks of the Uchida Dairy Company in the city were not cleaned in place, causing students and teachers Mass food poisoning, but the pathogen has not been determined yet. In addition, the Toyama City Health Center imposed suspension of operations on Uchida Dairy Company in accordance with Japan’s Food Sanitation Law.
In April of this year, the Toyama City Health Center went to Uchida Dairy Company for a routine inspection, and no problems were found at that time. On June 19, Toyama City Health Center’s Life Hygiene Division Chief Suzuki Tokatsu said at a press conference, “Although (we) will regularly enter relevant companies for inspections, I feel very sorry that food poisoning incidents still occur.” Uchida was punished by suspension of business. Yoshio Uchida, chairman of the Dairy Company, said in an interview with the media: “Although I don’t know the specific cause of the poisoning incident, (my) heart is full of apologies and very regretful.”
In recent years, incidents of collective food poisoning in Japanese schools have occurred from time to time. In February this year, five middle schools in Ageo City, Saitama Prefecture suffered mass food poisoning. A total of 718 students and teachers experienced abdominal pain and fever. Japanese netizens are also very concerned about the recurrence of large-scale collective food poisoning. Some netizens left a message saying, “Uchida Dairy was given a sanction of suspension of business, did the school fail to supervise it?” “Under the epidemic, a mass food poisoning incident occurred, which is really terrifying.” (Fang Qing)
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