Philippines: 2 arrested for food
poisoning incident in Negros town
01/31/2009 | 10:34 AM
Source of Article: http://www.gmanews.tv/story/146768/2-arrested-for-food-poisoning-incident-in-Negros-town
MANILA,
Philippines — Police
in Murcia
town in Negros Occidental arrested a man and a woman in connection with a
food poisoning incident that downed some 50 pupils in a school there, a radio
report said Saturday.
Visayas-based Bombo Radyo reported that Mylene Hingco and Joel Abaro were
detained for the incident that downed 50 pupils at Alfredo Montelibano Elementary
School.
Initial investigation showed Hingco sold the "Lemon Square"
pastries to Abaro in exchange for a ganta of rice.
Abaro's children, both pupils at the elementary
school, then sold the food items to their classmates.
Hingco admitted knowing the food items were already
expired as early as July 2008. She said some of the pastries werer already already moldy.
Hingco said she got her supply of pastries from a
sibling who works at a distributor of "Lemon Square" in Bacolod City.
The expired pastries were to be used as hog feed, she said.
But she insisted she did not know Abaro would let
his children sell the pastries.
Meanwhile, six Grade 4 pupils remained at the Western Visayas Regional
Hospital Saturday
morning after complaining of vomiting. Other pupils remained at the Murcia
Municipal Health Clinic.
For his part, Murcia Mayor Esteban Coscuella said
he would summon the distributor of the food items to inquire why they allowed
the sale of the expired items instead of destroying them. - GMANews.TV
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