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Feed additive in pork sickens hundreds in Shanghai |
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| www.chinaview.cn
2006-09-15 19:07:48
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China has banned the use of
"Shouroujing" as an additive in pig feed.(File
photo) | SHANGHAI,
Sept. 15 (Xinhua) -- More than 300 people in Shanghai appear to have been
poisoned by pork containing an animal feed additive, sources with the municipal
health authorities announced on Friday afternoon.
A total of 278 people were hospitalized in the Pudong
New Area but most of them have now been discharged from five local hospitals,
said officials with the New Area's food and drug supervision bureau. Only around
a dozen people remain in hospital for further observation.
The patients' symptoms - dizziness, fatigue, racing
pulse and muscular tremors - resemble the symptoms for poisoning by clenbuterol,
a dangerous animal feed additive, said Zhu Changqing, head of the emergency
department of Renjin Hospital in the Pudong New Area.
The feed additive, dubbed "Shouroujing", in Chinese
literately means lean meat essence for pigs. It is used to prevent pigs from
accumulating fat.
The ill people reported they ate pork, pig liver and
other pig organs, and 128 of them had lunch at their work unit canteen before
developing the symptoms.
The Pudong food and drug supervision bureau said
blood samples have been collected from the patients for testing. Results will
come out in three days.
China has banned the use of "Shouroujing" as an
additive in pig feed. The chemical poisons human beings and can be fatal.
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