Panic in the canteen. A hundred students at the Caroline Aigle primary school in Mondonville (Haute Garonne) probably had difficulty digesting the canteen menu, Actu Toulouse reveals.
“We confirm a suspicion of food infection: a hundred people are affected,” the Occitania Regional Health Agency explains to BFMTV.com.
The chicken?
The culprit has not yet been identified. The agency announced the opening of an investigation to confirm the poisoning and determine the cause. According to the parents, the culprit is obvious: the chicken.
“On Tuesday at noon the chicken was not cooked… And there were all the children who followed a meatless diet. [jeudi] because they were not sick,” a student’s father explained to the news site.
This version, however, is questioned by Armand Mbina-Ivega, general director of city services. “I have confirmation that the chicken was put in the oven, so it was already cooked. But maybe it wasn’t cooked enough?” he wonders.
Another element raises doubts. Meals served at this primary school are prepared elsewhere and then delivered cold before being reheated on site. However, said service provider also offered the same menu in other establishments, without similar cases occurring in other places.
“No hospitalization”
What if it wasn’t food poisoning? The hypothesis of a devastating epidemic of gastroenteritis, a highly transmissible disease, especially among children, has also been put on the table.
From BFMTV.com, the ARS indicates that “there are no hospitalizations” at the moment.
Source: BFM TV
