2600 Russians Suffer From Severe Food Poisoning Annually

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2600 Russians Suffer From Severe Food Poisoning Annually

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http://english.pravda.ru/accidents/21/9 ... oning.html

Muscovite, who bought a pack of rye crackers to his beer, found a dried body of a baby rat inside the pack

It seems that massive food poisoning has become a sad part of everyday reality in Russia. News programs continue reporting serious food poisoning incidents, in which dozens and even hundreds of people suffer. The latest once of them happened last week in Russia, when over 600 people traveling in a train from Russia's south to Moscow were poisoned with bad quality food. Over a hundred passengers, most of them children, still remain hospitalized. Preliminary investigation showed that all those people had eaten pieces of a large 50-kilo cake, which apparently became the reason of such a massive poisoning.

There are a lot of other examples like that. About 100 cadets of the Stavropol Military Institute found themselves on hospital beds after they had had dinner in the dining hall of the institute. Over 30 schoolchildren from the republic of Chuvashia in Central Russia were poisoned with bad-quality sausages in the middle of October. Fifty residents of one of the settlements in the Amur region of Russia, 48 of them schoolchildren, suffered from low quality food on October 21. All these incidents happened in Russia in October only.

According to the federal service for control of consumers' rights,...

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