Arrests in China after more than 230 kindergarten children poisoned by lead paint in food | China
Chinese authorities arrested six people and launched a disciplinary investigation for almost 30 people after poisoning more than 230 kindergarten children with food -colored food.
The event that took place in the state of Gansu at the beginning of this month is one of the worst school food safety events in China and attracted national interest. An investigation report published by the Gansu State Party Committee on Sunday found that there were attempts to cover up a failures and the event, to bribe and to change the test results.
In the report, Tiaanshui said that the principal in the kindergarten wanted to “improve the color and appearance of the food presented to children. The cook of the school purchased industrial class pigments online and added to the packages that were “not for consumption”.
It was found that a pigment has 400,000 times lead levels of the secure legal limit. The report said the school bought food safe coloring at a cheaper cost, but preferred “brighter” colors.
Initially, 235 students were hospitalized after eating colorful foods. The local state media said that the children experienced stomach pain and nausea at that time and that some children’s teeth turned black. The final tests revealed that 247 students and staff, including the principal, rose to lead levels in their blood as a result of eating food.
Six kindergarten staff, including the manager, were accused of delivering toxic and harmful foods. Disciplinary investigations have been initiated on the actions of 27 people working for the school, hospital and government.
However, Sunday’s report was used in almost every level of the process and response.
Gansu Provincial Disease Control and Prevention Center neglected after accepting the case and the examples of health regulations violating and test results and real levels to lead to a “big difference”, he said.
In the report, at least two children’s test results in Tiaanshui Second Folk Hospital were illegally “modified illegally to record significantly lower sales levels.
In the report, “Tiaanshui Second People’s Hospital and Laboratory Department management chaotic, business responsibilities were not fully applied, laboratory quality control was not fully applied and the relevant audit personnel lack systematic education,” he said.
He also accused the local education office of being a “blind eye ına to the kindergarten, which operates unlicensed and demanded high wages in order not to carry out food safety inspections in any private kindergarten for two years. In multiple departments, preschool education officials in charge of preschool education, Tiaanshui Kindergarten, the major investors and the school affiliated to the benefits and bribery, he said.
The report said that China’s best Anti -Corruption officials have filed a lawsuit for government officials for a large number of investigations and investigations in the hospital.
He said that the children were treated and that they were discharged after the first treatment round, except one, and that the lead levels fell by 40%on average.
In the report, “The Provincial Party Committee and the Provincial Government are deeply upset by the abnormal blood leadership problem in Brownstone Peixin in the Maiji Region in Tiaanshui, and expresses deep apologies to children and parents,” he said.
The publication of the report was accompanied by protests reported by parents outside the kindergarten on Sunday evening. The images shared online by the teacher Li, who watched China’s opposition, claimed that the police and Tiaanshui kindergarten show conflicts between several hundred people except.
The images showed angry parents who question the use of violence, questioning the use of violence, which was faced with simple clothes of civil servants and individuals using physical forces, including batons. Police cars tried to accompany individuals in plain clothes, and the parents blocked the way and shouted: ın Delivering people who beat people. ”
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