Thank you for subscribing See our privacy notice Invalid EmailNine people from the same family have died after eating noodles that had been left in a freezer for a year. They had they suffered food poisoning after eating a fermented noodle dish called Suantangzi, a local Chinese delicacy, on October 5. Once poisoned, the fatality rate can be as high as 40% to 100%.”Mr Gao said bongkrek acid is resistant to being boiled at high temperatures. Between 1951 and 1975, an average of 288 poisonings and 34 deaths ascribed to bongkrek acid were reported in Indonesia every year. Bongkrek acid contamination in locally-produced beer was also blamed for 75 deaths and over 200 hospitalisations after a funeral in Mozambique.

Source: The Star October 20, 2020 17:44 UTC