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Article: Chinese start investigation after fast food poisoning kills 41
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- The Scotsman
- Article date:
- September 16, 2002
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CHINESE authorities held the boss of a fast food restaurant for
questioning yesterday as they investigated a food poisoning outbreak
that state media said had killed 41 people and put hundreds more in
hospital.
Locals in Tangshan, a small industrial town near the eastern city
of Nanjing, estimated that more than 100 people had died after eating
breakfast snacks such as sesame cakes and fried dough sticks at a
branch of the Heshengyuan Soy Milk chain.
The Communist Party's central committee and the cabinet sent
police and health officials to investigate, highlighting concerns in
Beijing about bad publicity in the run-up to a leadership change.
Peng Yongqing, who owns a store next to the ...