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    1. More than 20 elementary school students in a remote town in Bohol, Philippines died after eating food from vendors outside their school. 2. In the morning, students bought food like fried root crops from vendors after recess. Later that day, many students started vomiting and lost consciousness. They were brought to the hospital, where over 20 died by 2pm. 3. An investigation found that a fried root crop sold by an elderly woman contained a pesticide that was mistaken for flour. The pesticide was used to kill chicken lice and caused the fatal food poisoning among the students.

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    1. More than 20 elementary school students in a remote town in Bohol, Philippines died after eating food from vendors outside their school. 2. In the morning, students bought food like fried root crops from vendors after recess. Later that day, many students started vomiting and lost consciousness. They were brought to the hospital, where over 20 died by 2pm. 3. An investigation found that a fried root crop sold by an elderly woman contained a pesticide that was mistaken for flour. The pesticide was used to kill chicken lice and caused the fatal food poisoning among the students.

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    1. More than 20 elementary school students in a remote town in Bohol, Philippines died after eating food from vendors outside their school. 2. In the morning, students bought food like fried root crops from vendors after recess. Later that day, many students started vomiting and lost consciousness. They were brought to the hospital, where over 20 died by 2pm. 3. An investigation found that a fried root crop sold by an elderly woman contained a pesticide that was mistaken for flour. The pesticide was used to kill chicken lice and caused the fatal food poisoning among the students.

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    BTLEd-HE 3211
    Fundamentals of Food Technology
    QUIZ 2
    Case

    In a remote town of Bohol stood a small public elementary school. Outside of the school are local food
    vendors selling different types of food that are affordable to the school children.

    One morning, the recess bell rang and the children eagerly ran just outside of the school premises to buy
    some of their favorite food items sold outside of the school gates. This was about 9 am. At 11 in the
    morning some school children started vomiting and complained about terrible stomachache.
    Immediately some of the students began to be unconscious. At this moment, school officials asked
    helped from the local government. This prompted local government officials to bring many of the
    elementary students to nearby hospital.

    At about 2 pm more than 20 of the students had died. A national inquiry had been made by the
    government. The investigators found out that a local delicacy sold by an old lady cause of the fatal food
    poisoning. According to investigators, many of the casualties bought a fried root crop sold by the lady.
    Immediately, they inspected the house of the lady. They found out that the root crop is just harvested
    behind the house of the lady, that is not the cause of the illness. However, further test of the suspected
    food item revealed a presence of a pesticide used to kill chicken lice. This is a white powdery substance
    that could easily be mistaken as flour. At the house of the old lady, indeed investigators found out the
    pesticide.

    1. In your own opinion, what do you think had caused the fatalities of the young children?
    2. If you are the parent or teacher of the children, how could you avoid such incident?
    3. Based on what you have learned from the discussion, how could you avoid such incident from
    happening?

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