Sixty-nine students and one teacher from a junior high school fell ill from suspected food poisoning after visiting the Janfusun Fancyworld amusement park in Yunlin County on Tuesday, the Yunlin County Public Health Bureau said yesterday.
About 600 students from Taoyuan’s Ping Jhen Junior High School ate dinner at one of the park’s restaurants, it said.
Some people began experiencing nausea and gastrointestinal issues at about 1am, with more falling ill by 8am, it added.
Photo courtesy of Yulin County Public Health Bureau
The restaurant reported itself to the bureau and assisted in transferring the students to National Cheng Kung University Hospital’s Douliu Branch and two medical clinics, it added.
The conditions of all those affected have improved, with the majority departing for Taoyuan at 2pm yesterday, the bureau said, adding that more than 10 people remain under close observation.
The park’s hotel provided sports drinks and plain porridge to the students as they recovered, it said.
Personnel were sent to the restaurant to investigate the cause of the suspected food poisoning and collect samples, which have been sent to the Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control, the bureau said.
A report would be released within two weeks, it added.
It marks the fourth major food safety incident in Taiwan in the past two weeks, following salmonella incidents at a spring roll vendor in Kaohsiung and a lunchbox chain in New Taipei City, as well as another unspecified food poisoning incident linked to another lunchbox restaurant in Taoyuan, which was reported on Tuesday.
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