Chef mistake behind fatal soup

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Investigators in China have uncovered the reason six people died from food poisoning last week. The six died in Hubei after eating dumpling soup for lunch. It has now emerged that the reason for their deaths was that the cook tried to thicken the soup by adding rat poison which he thought was flour.

Police investigated the deaths because of fears that a crime had been committed. They found however that human error was to blame.

The cook, who was among the six who died, had stored chemicals in the kitchen when he moved house.

China is conducting a campaign to improve its food safety, with reports of non-fatal poisoning at school and work canteens quite common. © 2007 Australian Broadcasting Corporation

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Posted November 19th, 2007 by Dinka

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