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85 villagers in Kompong Cham got food poising (khmer noodle)

Kompong Cham, Doctor Sovann, The spokesman of ministry of health said, So far, the number of villagers in Kompong Cham province who got food poising have reached 85 (52 female, 7 male and 26 children).

Related to this, the doctor suspected that it caused from the low hygienic practice at the noodle house. Doctor requested the owner of the noodle house to pay more attention on hygienic practice.

This incident occurred around 11:30 am on 8 May 2015. Those villagers who got food posing mostly from Tomnop village, Tomnop commune, Batheay district, Kompong Cham province. They bought khmer noodle from the market to eat at home.

Recently all of the victims are being hospitalized at Batheay district health center.






Engrish

Khmer hygiene at work again.

Hey, why educate villagers, we need helicopters more...fuckwits.

CEOCambodiaNews wrote:85 villagers in Kompong Cham got food poising (khmer noodle)

Related to this, the doctor suspected that it caused from the low hygienic practice at the noodle house. Doctor requested the owner of the noodle house to pay more attention on hygienic practice.

Wow, the doctor must be a genius.

But why such a harsh response, to even suggest the cunt preparing the noodles shouldn't shit in the wok?

So unfair.

CEOCambodiaNews wrote:Doctor requested the owner of the noodle house to pay more attention on hygienic practice.

Well THAT seems a bit aggressive. Where is the face-save?

Rice noodles fabricated in a village are probably unhygienic according to western standards, but most local people have a certain tolerance to this standard of hygiene. I've seen them being made in all sorts of dirty places, outside with exposure to dust and sawdust, animals roaming around, no washing of hands etc - and nobody was poisoned (as far as I know.)
Surely big scale food-poisoning like this means that there was something amiss apart from the usual hygiene standards ? I'm only guessing, but pesticides or something similar ?

Anchor Moy wrote:I'm only guessing, but pesticides or something similar ?

Yep. That's what caused the big one recently in Siem Reap.

Food poisoning on that scale is unlikely to be due to poor hygiene. It's much more likely to be down to either ingredients that have gone bad or contamination by pesticide, cleaning product, etc.

Four days ago I got a to-go pork n' noodles at a restaurant on Victory Hill (Snooky) that I have been going to for about a year. Got sick that night and for two days. Lots of meds brought me around. I suspect bad food storage practices.