Noodles omicidi.
Nine people from a single household died after eating noodles that had been left in the freezer for a year.
The noodles in question were a particular type, called Suantangzi.
A type of homemade noodle, made with fermented cornmeal.
A type of noodle that caused a very serious intoxication that killed one after another the members of a family of Jixi, in the north-eastern province of China of Heilongjiang: first seven people died on 10 October while the last member of the family – a woman – died on Monday.
We would be talking about more dramatic numbers if three children ate the pasta in question but luckily the three children refused to eat it because they didn’t like the taste.
The cause of death – as told by Gao Fei, director of food safety at the Heilongjiang Center for Disease Control and Prevention, to the China News Service – was thepoisoning by bongkrek acid, a deadly toxin produced in fermented coconut which resulted in determined to be banned from Indonesia for the many deaths caused (between 1951 and 1975, an average of 288 poisonings and 34 deaths attributed to bongkrek acid were reported in Indonesia each year).
Symptoms of bongkrek poisoning include stomach pain, sweating, general weakness, and possibly coma. Death can therefore come within 24 hours.
“It can cause severe damage to many human organs, including the liver, kidneys, heart, and brain. There is currently no specific antidote. Once poisoned, the mortality rate exceeds 40% ”: said Gao Fei.
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