Siem Reap : 300 students got food poisoning after they ate bread with pate. This incident occurred on 28 March 2015 as one NGO had brought a lot of bread with pate and distributed them to those poor children. Then, after they ate them; they became to throw up and passed out. Later, they were brought to Siem Rreap provincial hospital for emergency assistance.

"Well.... we thought it was pate."

Oh those poor little kids

One report is saying at least 570 people have fell ill because of this bread:

Contaminated Bread Distributed By World Vision NGO Downs At Least 570 Cambodians

CAMBODIA – At least 570 Cambodians fell ill after partaking on what authorities believed were contaminated breads filled with meat and vegetables allegedly distributed by NGO World Vision Saturday afternoon.

Most of those who fell ill were children but no one was in serious condition and almost half of them have recovered and returned home, health authorities said.

Siem Reap Provincial Health Chief Kros Sarath confirmed the incident, saying the victims were attending an event for school children at Chhi Kreng district in northwestern Cambodia’s Siem Reap province.

After eating the filled bread, the Cambodians started feeling dizzy and vomited.

“About 570 people, most of them were children, got dizzy and vomited after eating the contaminated bread,” Sarath told the China state-owned Xinhua news agency.

Sarath added that based on preliminary conclusion, it was suspected that the vegetables, especially cucumbers, which were put in the bread, were contaminated with insecticide as a result of failure to.......

http://www.businessnewsasia.com/2015032 ... ambodians/

rozzieoz wrote:Oh those poor little kids

Hey, what about us poor oldies. I got sick too, just thinking about it.

Anyone know a good lawyer capable of suing a NGO ?

Duncan wrote:
Hey, what about us poor oldies.

Let them eat cake.

And only last month the red cross donated a load of rotten rice to villagers (including the infamous AIDS village) in Battambang https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/red- ... une-78931/
Seems life any old sh×t will do.

I was sort of hoping is was a cake and expat orientated story.

who prepared that for them ?

My gfs brother in law brought salmon pate from Italy. One time I was in the province and they brought out some he left there. U refrigerated is fine as long as it isn't open. Evidently the didn't do that after they opened it. Smelled horrible. Her local brother in law loved it and ate it on bread. I was sick for him. Never seemed to bother him though.