Lizard in mid-day meal, 15 children hospitalised in Madhubani, Bihar

July 17, 2013 16:45

Unlike the Chhapra incident where organophosphorus used in pesticides had contaminated the mustard oil used to prepare the potato-soyabean meal, causing death of 22 students, the severity of food poisoning in the Madhubani incident is low. CNN IBN reports that a lizard was found in the meal. The children started vomiting and were rushed to a local hospital.

In the Chhapra incident, Principal Secretary, Education, Amarjeet Sinha, said that vegetables used in cooking the mid-day meal had traces of organophosphorus.

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