Taipei Mayor Chiang Wan An faces mounting controversy over the city's free
school lunch program...

as students at another school are suspected to have contracted food
poisoning.

DPP City Councilor Hong Jian Yi yesterday revealed that parents had contacted
his office, reporting 10 cases of suspected food poisoning that took place
last week.

He said that parents reported that the children had eaten squid in the
school's free lunch and threw up afterwards.

The city's Education Bureau says, the incident took place at Songshan's Minzu
Elementary School, adding that the school instituted changes the day after
the food poisoning took palce.

Mayor Chiang says today that doctors' initial assessment suggests that the
students are suffering from gastroenteritis, possibly brought on by
norovirus.

He added that the school had put into place cleaning and disinfection
measures after the case came to light.

The Minzu Elementary case comes just days after 3 students at Jinhua Middle
School are suspected to have gotten food poisoning last week.

(AH)