JAPAN : Premier, Aides Meet on Food Poisoning
From Times Wire Reports
Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto called an emergency meeting of health, education and agriculture officials as the number of victims in a food poisoning outbreak neared 6,000, most of them children. The outbreak of a strain of E. coli bacteria is Japan’s worst bout of food poisoning in almost a decade. Officials suspect most of the victims ate tainted cafeteria food at 53 public schools in Sakai, about 265 miles southwest of Tokyo.
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