The Korean Food and Drug Administration announced on July 7 that it had 2112 people suspected of causing food poisoning by eating chocolate cake served in school lunch and so on in South Korea. A survey of vendors in Gyeonggi Province, Gyeonggi Province, where the agency delivered the cake, found salmonella.

According to the agency, etc., the chocolate cake was delivered from this dealer is a facility such as elementary and junior high school and kindergarten in Busan and Daegu. Children and pupils who ate the cake complained of symptoms such as abdominal pain and diarrhea around 5th. Patients may increase even further.

The agency took steps to prohibit circulation of the problematic cake by 7th. (Seoul = Aichi Makino)