Malaysian food company serves 54 children noodles spiked with broken glass

A Malaysian food company that served 54 school children meals spiked with shards of glass has been suspended, local media reports Wednesday.

The company, which supplied food to the supplementary feeding program for impoverished students at a school in Hulu Selangor district of the western Selangor state, had delivered fried noodles, or mee goreng in Malay, mixed with pieces of broken glass at lunchtime, sending seven children to the hospital last Friday, according to the Malaysian Star Online newspaper.

“Action will be taken against those responsible for endangering these students, said prime minister Najib Razak in a statement published on his official blog.

Of the 54 who consumed the tainted meal, four girls and three boys were admitted to Sungai Buloh hospital and complained of suffering from stomach pain, vomiting blood and bloody stools.

The pupils had reportedly complained about the glass to the teacher, who thought it was plastic and advised them to pick it out and eat the noodles anyway, said Kuala Kubu Baru assemblywoman Lee Kee Hiong, as quoted by Free Malaysia Today.

Lee added that the school believed the window of the truck transporting the food had broken en route, spraying the noodles with glass fragments before they arrived to the classrooms.

Deputy Education Minister Datuk P.Kamalanathan said the local food company would be suspended and no longer serve the school students.