Food Poisoning Posing Serious Threat to Health.

From: Korea Times (Seoul, Korea) | Date: December 30, 2000 | Copyright information

Food poisoning has posed a growing threat to public health with its number of victims surging over the last five years.

The Korea Food and Drug Administration (KFDA) said yesterday that a total of 7,269 people were hit with food poisoning in the first 11 months of this year, slightly down from last year's 7,764.

The figure represents a nearly five-fold increase from 1,584 in 1995.

Those reported suffering from food poisoning climbed to 2,797 in 1996, 2,942 in 1997 and 4,577 in 1998.

A KFDA official partly attributed the surge to unsafe school lunch programs which ...

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