In China, local authorities and hospital employees tried to hide a large food poisoning scandal. This is apparent from Investigation by the Chinese national authoritiesafter about 250 toddlers received food at a daycare center that was poisoned with lead earlier this month.
Six people have been arrested, including the director of childcare and several chefs. There are still investigations into a total of seventeen people, including managers from the hospital.
The kitchen staff of a shelter in the province of Gansu in northern China mixed food with paint pigments at the beginning of July, reportedly to make the food look more attractive. Later these pigments turned out For twenty percent to consist of lead – an exceedance of the safety standard by a factor of two thousand.
At the time, parents informed local state media that their children suffered from stomach pain and nausea, reports The Guardian. Some children would even have had black teeth. More than two hundred children were admitted is the hospital. In the meantime, except for one child, all the victims would have been fired from the hospital.
Blood samples
After the poisoning came into publicity, the Provincial Center for disease control and prevention of the province of Gansu was instructed to investigate the issue; More than 250 students and employees of the daycare were tested for the lead content in their blood.
Now it appears that the research results have been falsified, according to the national authorities. The tests would have been grumbled by shaking blood samples, “which resulted in a huge difference between the test results and the actual values,” the report said. Officials are accused of having accepted unauthorized gifts. They would also have looked away from the fact that the shelter did not have the right permits.
In China, where there have been worries about food safety for some time, the report stirs up the necessary material. According to The Guardian, hundreds of people took to the streets at childcare, which led to confrontations with the police. It is exceptional that a cover -up scandal in China is brought to light so publicly.