Well, my TV here does not have a very good Channel 7 reception, so I told him. I haven't watched Kapuso shows for like..... more than a year...err I guess. To check, I went to my trusted online Pinoy news site, inquirer.net and there it is.....
Lollipop blamed as 398 kids fall ill
PUERTO PRINCESA CITY, Philippines—Lollipop made in Indonesia and sold by an itinerant vendor to school children in Rio Tuba, Bataraza town allegedly downed 398 children Friday morning, a local doctor said.
Dr. Reginaldo Mia, medical director of the RTN Foundation Hospital in the village of Rio Tuba, said they had admitted 23 of the affected children for closer medical monitoring but clarified that the patients were in stable condition after suffering from food poisoning.
Mia said the school children had complained of vomiting and nausea after eating lollipop with the brand name "Bonelight" and made in Indonesia.
"They were all brought to the hospital at around 9:30 a.m., apparently after their recess period. We noted in the candy wrapper that was shown to us that the product had expired last December 28, 2007," she said.
Most of the children were discharged after being given medication, while the 23 others had to be confined for further medical observation, according to Mia.
Police authorities were investigating the source of the candy, she added.
Tsk tsk..
The candies/lollipops used to be sold by Tintin, a store owned by the Leoncios, which stands at the corner of the Macadam Highway and the road leading to the Rio Tuba North Elem School. They were disposed by the store, wrapped in sacks. Now there's this garbage scavenger who found the sacks and saw profit in them. She sold the candies in her stall right outside the public school premises and the schoolchildren, during recess, purchased those expired candies.
Apparently the candies' expiry date cannot be easily noticed on their wrapper. But this does not matter anymore. The fact that the vendor merely rummaged on them from the trash definitely puts her in bad faith in selling them.
