Just one week after free nutritious lunches for primary and secondary schools in Taipei City, an explosion in central China caused 87 students to suffer from diarrhea due to the sour smell of lunch meat.

Only a week after free nutritious lunches were launched for elementary and middle schools in Taipei City, a sour smell of lunch meat supplied by the hot food department in Chengyuangao, Datong District, Central China broke out, causing 87 students to suffer from collective diarrhea. City Councilor Jian Shupei questioned that the manufacturer "Lian Dazhuang Enterprise Co., Ltd." provided meals to many schools, but the city government only ordered Chengyuan to stop providing meals, and did not stop supplying other schools as a preventive measure. DPP Taipei mayor candidate Shen Boyang was stunned when he heard a question from the media today and said that he had already mentioned it when the incident happened, "I thought it had been done." Didn't Mayor Chiang say that food safety is national security?

Shen Boyang pointed out that on September 8, the first day after the incident was reported, he was interviewed and said, "We should immediately check whether the manufacturer has provided meals to other schools and implement preventive spot checks and disposal." Therefore, he thought the city government had already done so. "Didn't Mayor Jiang say that food safety is national security?" For such an important food safety issue, we should carry out audits, trace the source and prevent similar problems from happening again, just like what Jiang said before, preventive removal from shelves.

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Shen Boyang also said, "I actually mentioned this matter on the first day, and I always thought I had done it, so I didn't speak later."

The Health Bureau responded that this case is currently a report of suspected food poisoning among students in the Hot Food Department of Chengyu High School Central China. Since the meals are served by different workers in different workplaces and by different personnel in each school, and are not produced and distributed to each school at the same location, the Chengyu High School Hot Food Department of Central China immediately ordered the closure of the business where the suspected food poisoning incident occurred. The Education Bureau also required the school to terminate the contract with the manufacturer.

The Health Bureau stated that today (10th) the inspection of the hot food department of the middle school in the middle school of the middle school served by this manufacturer in Beishi City has been completed; subsequent measures will be taken according to the investigation results. As for Lian Dazhuang's meal supply process, the Health Bureau said that based on on-site verification of information provided by the Education Bureau, Lian Dazhuang prepares meals on site in the school's hot food department.

The Beishi City Government added that the schools in Liandazhuang catering for Beishi City include Municipal Datong High School (including the National Central School), the High School Affiliated to the University of Beishi (including the National Central School), Chengyuan High School (including the National Central School), Neihu High School, Jianguo High School, Jingmei Middle School, and Huajiang High School.