A teacher and 14 pupils of Hipodromo Elementary School showed signs of food poisoning after eating rice cakes sold in the school canteen last Wednesday.
The teacher and 11 children were brought to the Cebu City Medical Center. All were discharged yesterday.
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Goecilyn Fajardo, a Grade 1 teacher in charge of the canteen, said that she bought the rice cakes from a vendor in Carbon market.
Fajardo said it was the first time that this happened in their school. Three of her pupils who ate the rice cake threw up. She immediately attended to them and stopped selling the rice cakes.
Romeo Lisondra, school principal, said they are now requiring parents to let their children bring their own snacks or “baon” to school. /Jay-Ileen Engalla, Palompon Institute of Technology Intern