Workers get food poisoning

Workers get food poisoning

TANGERANG: Some 200 workers at the PT Karet Murni Kencana shoe
factory on Jl. Raya Serang, Cikupa district, Tangerang regency,
were rushed to hospital on Wednesday evening due to food
poisoning.

As of Thursday, the workers were still being treated at the
Tangerang General Hospital, Al-Qadr Hospital, Siloam Gleneagles
Hospital, Honoris Hospital and the Husada Insani Hospital.

One of the workers, Wati, 24, who was still receiving
treatment at the Tangerang General Hospital, said that the
workers had started to feel dizzy and queasy at around 4 p.m.,
before many of them fainted while working at their factory
benches.

Around 300 workers ate the company-provided lunch at midday.

The factory security guards reported the incident to the
management, which quickly arranged for the affected workers to be
brought to hospital.

Tangerang Police detectives deputy chief Insp. Kustanto said
that his officers had summoned the owner of the catering company
that supplied the food for questioning.

"We have taken samples of the food for laboratory tests," he
said. -- JP