The victims of the poisoning case in the vegetarian restaurant in Taipei increased to 18, of which the two died and five were in danger.The Ministry of Health and Welfare of Taiwan held a press conference on Thursday evening to announce that it was confirmed that it was caused by the first test of rice yeast acid.
The Food and Drug Administration of the Ministry of Health and Welfare has set the case as a major food safety incident. The political star of the blue camp and the mayor of Taipei Jiang Wanan has attracted much attention.
Minister of Health and Welfare Xue Ruiyuan on Thursday (March 28) earlier that he has invited experts and scholars and doctors to take care of the case.Experts believe that if endogenous toxins (that is, toxins released during bacterial cracking), it is probably caused by Bongkrekic Acid.However, it is not excluded that artificial poisoning, the prosecution unit has been involved in the investigation.
Rice yeast acid is usually named in Tempeh Bongkrek, a popular soybean -fermented food in Southeast Asia, and thus named it.
At 8:30 pm on Thursday, Wang Bicheng, the second leader of the Ministry of Health and Welfare, held a press conference to announce that after adopting the standard product inspection provided by the Taiwan hospital, it was confirmed that it was the first test of rice yeast acid in Taiwan.Large -scale inspection.
During the period from March 19th to 24th, 18 victims went to the bottom of the Far East Department Store in Xinyi District, Taipei City, and the Malaysian vegetarian restaurant "Baolin Tea Room" on the Great Food Street.River powder has symptoms of vomiting and diarrhea.
Subsequently, there were two reports of death, and there were four women and one man who was still rescued at the intensive care unit, aged 40 to 53.
The first deceased was a newlywed man named Lu who was engaged in the financial industry. After lunch on March 22, he vomited and diarrhea that night. After two days, he was sent to the hospital for emergency treatment.The second deceased was a 66 -year -old man named Yang. He dine alone on March 19. He had diarrhea more than 30 times that night. After taking the medicine, he improved. After four days, he was sent to the intensive care unit.
The location of the incident was Jiang Wanan's jurisdiction. The Political Democratic Progressive Party arrested the opportunity and immediately announced that it would open a live broadcast on Friday morning.Jiang Wanan did not dare to neglect. On Thursday afternoon, he led the municipal government's heads of the municipal government to open a press conference to let the media "ask full", and then announced that there was a press conference on Friday.
Jiang Wanan also attended the Executive Yuan Conference on Thursday. He hoped that the central government would assist in accelerating the inspection, clarify the truth of the facts as soon as possible, and call on the cross -ministries and agencies to investigate and "cooperate with the North City Government."
He revealed that the branches of Baolin Tea Room had been ordered to suspend business, trace victims in counties and cities across the country, and required upstream manufacturers' ingredients to stop supply.In addition, the Taipei Municipal Bureau of Social Affairs has completed the visits and condolences of all family members and victims; the police station also cooperated with the prosecutor to conduct investigations to fully check relevant information and documents as soon as possible.
The investigation meeting was held on Thursday evening in Taipei City. The attendees include the head of the Far East Department Store, the representative of the Taiwan Daxi Catering and Insurance Company.
Li Xuanxuan revealed in an interview with the media three years ago that he was a Malaysian overseas Chinese and his mother was Taiwanese. He went to Taiwan at the age of 15. After graduating from college, he opened a travel agency in Taiwan.Due to the impact of the epidemic, travel agencies owed 10 million (NT $ 420,000) in debt, and then switched to the catering industry. First, they opened Malaysian vegetable food in Raohe Night Market, and then expanded the branch after the name was launched.
The lease of Baolin Tea Room of the disaster expires on Sunday (March 31). Whether it is empty to clear the inventory ingredients before the completion will also cause heated discussion among netizens.
