TRINIDAD: Lunches not source of pupils’ illness - (Trinidad & Tobago Express)
November 30, 2007 – 7:10 pmdadexpress.com/index.pl/article_news?id=161243211
Education Minister Esther Le Gendre was cited as saying that the lab tests conducted on the box lunch containing a worm in the macaroni pie was not the reason which led to over 100 students and a teacher falling ill at the Cap de Ville Government Primary school recently.
According to Le Gendre the reports from CARIRI and the Public Health Laboratory, “indicated that all of the lunch samples taken from the school were deemed safe…despite the presence of a foreign substance in macaroni pie seen in one box…it is therefore reasonable to conclude that the lunches were not the source of the illness experienced by pupils”
She added that reports conducted on the water also proved to be negative.
So why did 105 students and teacher fall ill? Le Gendre was cited as saying that the psychological effect of one child seeing a worm in his food triggered others to panic, adding, […]
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