106 hit by food poisoning at sports school

[MarrickG]

A food poisoning scare hit the Singapore Sports School recently, after 106 students fell ill from eating catered meals in school.

The students complained of symptoms such as diarrhoea, abdominal pain, headache and nausea, between Nov 1 and Nov 3. The cases were reported and referred to the Ministry of Health (MOH).

11 students had to seek outpatient treatment for their symptoms, but all students have since recovered.

According to a statement released yesterday, MOH said it is working with the National Environment Agency (NEA) to investigate the food poisoning incident involving a licensed caterer, ISS Catering Services Pte Ltd operating at the Singapore Sports School.

According to a report in Shin Min Daily News, the school's principal had ordered a clean up of the kitchen over the long weekend, and normal operations have since resumed.

Students at the Singapore Sports School have to stay in campus during the week, and have three their meals catered in school.

After the cases were discovered, the school stopped all catering services as a precaution and bought packed meals for students on Nov 4.

 

[halsey02]

YOG over sometime ago...

 

[Papsmearer]

Same caterer who poisoned the YOG people? Wouldn't surprise me. Can someone please explain to me the purpose of this tax payer waste of money? This school cost $75 million to build, and don't know how many million $ to run every year and it has only 400 students? How many Olympic medal winners has it produced? They keep harping about how many SEA games, Asian Games, and Commonwealth medals they win. The real price is Olympic medals. And to top it off, the govt. is importing fully trained FT athletes to make up the S'pore squads, so where do these graduates go? there is no space for them. Its typical case of one branch of the govt. doing one thing,a nd the other branch do the opposite and they end up getting saboed.

 

[johnny333]

YOG over sometime ago...

Must be the YOG virus.

They are ever present in the Spore system, dressed in white & collecting their fat pay checks

 

[halsey02]

Must be the YOG virus.

They are ever present in the Spore system, dressed in white & collecting their fat pay checks

That is the papynosoauraus virus, huge blob of white...

 

[lovesamleong]

Wonder what kind of kitchen staff is working at ISS Catering Services. PRCs? Indians? Pinoys?