Sausage factory raided after children fall ill
published : 3 Feb 2022 at 16:38
writer: Gary Boyle
ORIGINAL SOURCE/WRITER: Wassayos Ngamkham
Consumer protection police raided a sausage factory in Chon Buri after children in five provinces developed a blood disorder after eating food produced there.
The raid followed information from the FDA that nine children - in Chiang Mai, Saraburi, Phetchaburi, Trang and Kanchanaburi provinces - were hospitalised after eating sausages.
They were diagnosed with a blood disorder.
Investigators first confirmed that the sausages were all made at the same factory in Chon Buri.
The police, FDA officials and health officials in Chon Buri inspected the factory and spoke to a woman who said she was the owner. Her name was withheld.
She admitted to having produced sausage products without the proper permits for about five years.
Labels of some products there matched those on the food eaten by the students who fell ill. The products had no FDA approval.
The team confiscated products worth about 700,000 baht for inspection and the factory owner was held for questioning.
Authorities also ordered the closure of the factory.
Vocabulary
- closure (noun): the shutting down of a school, factory or other business or service - การปิด
- confiscated: officially taken away - ถูกยึด
- diagnosed (verb): having found out what physical or mental problem someone has by examining them - วินิจฉัยโรค, พบสาเหตุ
- disorder: an illness or medical condition - ความผิดปกติทางกายหรือใจ
- FDA (noun): the Food and Drug Administration, a government agency responsible for food and drug safety - อย. , สำนักงานคณะกรรมการอาหารและยา
- hospitalise: to send somebody to a hospital for treatment - ให้อยู่โรงพยาบาล
- permit: an official document that gives you permission to do something - ใบอนุญาต
- questioning: when the police asks a person questions in the investigation of a crime -
- raid: to use force to enter a place suddenly in order to arrest people or search for something such as illegal weapons or drugs - บุกเข้าจับ, เข้าตรวจค้น
- withheld (verb): to deliberately not give something to someone - ไม่เปิดเผย, ไม่อนุญาต, ระงับ, ถอนกลับ
