70 workers fall sick in China due to food poisoning

In a fresh case of mass food poisoning, more than 70 workers fell ill at an American-owned factory in southern China.
Nineteen of them have been hospitalised.
More than 70 workers at the American-owned factory in Guangdong Province fell ill due to suspected food poisoning, local authorities said today.
The disease control watchdog blamed salmonella, a common bacteria due for the incident.
The workers were employed in packaging company which has labour force of more than 500 people.
Earlier, 386 students of a school in southwest China's Sichuan Province fell sick due to food poisoning on June 15.
Reports say most of the 231 hospitalised students from Meishan Yingtian School still remained in hospital under observation.

Several such cases were reported in the recent weeks from different parts of China.