May 18 was Thursday, but Huang, a third-grader at Xiamen's Qianpu South Primary School, didn't go to school. "My son had a fever from the early hours of May 11, which developed into vomiting and diarrhea. after being hospitalized on the 12th, he had diarrhea as many as 27 times a day. After taking samples and examining them, doctors diagnosed him with Salmonella Dublin enteritis. he was discharged from the hospital on the 16th and stayed home to recuperate." The classmate's mother, Ms. Huang, suspected that her child's illness was related to eating bread served at the school's recess meals.

Mrs. Huang told China Youth Daily - China Youth Daily Online that hundreds of students at her son's school got similar illnesses at the same time.

According to a May 12 report to superiors from the Xiamen Municipal Health and Family Planning Commission, "As of 17:00 on May 12, the cumulative number of cases in the Qianpu South Primary School was 189 cases. Clinical manifestations are dominated by fever and diarrhea symptoms. Preliminary judgment is that this is a suspected Salmonella caused by a clustered outbreak."

An official message published on Xiamen.com early this morning disclosed that on May 11 and 12, some students at several elementary school in the city suffered from fever and diarrhea. The situation is now under control and the vast majority of students have recovered. "After testing, some of the students' illnesses were related to the consumption of Shengfu Xing Japanese-style cream bread."

It is reported that 60 percent of school recess meals in the Xiamen area are currently supplied by the company involved, Shengfu Xing Food (Xiamen) Co. The company's "Note on this suspected poisoning in several Xiamen schools," released on May 16, acknowledged that "since the 11th, some students have shown symptoms of dizziness, headache, sore throat, diarrhea, fever, and vomiting caused by suspected consumption of Semper Fi Xing bread."

Shengfu Xing Food (Xiamen) Co Ltd, a joint venture between Taiwan and the mainland, specializes in bread, cakes and dry snacks, and has dozens of stores spread across Xiamen city. Yesterday, a student's parent posted photos on Weibo of the enterprise's factory building in Building E of the Yongjia New Industrial Zone in Xiamen's Huli District, showing the building's dilapidated appearance and piles of garbage around it. A netizen commented, "Can such a dirty and messy environment produce qualified and safe products? How did such a factory get on the school's procurement list?"

The reporter specially went to the location of the enterprise to visit this morning, and found that the factory door was closed, the outer wall of the plant was broken and dirty, and individual window glass was broken. Two electrical and printing companies adjacent to this food business are producing with their doors open, emitting odors in the air.

Official sources confirmed that the local market supervision and management departments have ordered the companies involved to stop production and sales, "tracing the suspected problem products to go, off the shelves, recall similar products, sampling and testing of similar products, the companies involved in the case, according to the law, serious investigations". In the afternoon, the reporter came to Xiamen City Market Supervision Administration interview, coincidentally is the Bureau of Xiamen City, vice mayor Han Jingyi research, he said to take further measures to strengthen the supervision and management of food safety production.

The reporter learned from the Xiamen Siming District Education Bureau, and students drinking milk into the school shall be Xiamen City, a unified bidding different, as drinking milk with meals of bread is determined by the schools themselves. Xiamen Municipal Government Office issued in March last year, "the responsibility of the school canteen food safety management regulations," Article VII clearly requires that "the school unified for students, faculty and staff to order meals, should choose a collective meal distribution qualification of food service providers, and food supply units of food safety conditions, food supply capacity, transportation vehicles, and food safety management institutions, staffing and duties performed, etc., to ensure the safety of the meals. Uniform ordering schools should be in accordance with the requirements of the food ordered batch by batch inspection, to obtain the relevant vouchers, the establishment of accounts and records."

The reporter contacted two schools in Siming District with student food safety problems and asked why they ordered Shengfu Xing bread and whether they had conducted a site visit to the company, and the school officials refused to answer.

However, a May 15 emergency notice from the Xiamen Haicang District Education Bureau to the schools pointed out that the schools involved in the incident had the following major safety hazards in their food safety management: "First, the food purchase account is missing; second, the 48-hour sampling system has not been implemented."

According to media reports here, the local education department has ordered the school to stop ordering Shengfu Xing food.