Fourteen people who were admitted to hospitals in Taichung after getting sick from suspected food poisoning from a meal at The Lin Hotel on Friday were all discharged from hospital Saturday, the Taichung City government said today.
The patients showed common symptoms of acute gastroenteritis, including nausea and vomiting, said Lin Tzu-chieh (林子傑), head of the Taichung Veterans General Hospital's Emergency Medicine Department, where 13 of the individuals were treated.
Another individual who fell sick was treated at China Medical University Hospital.
Photo provided by the Taichung City Government
The city government said today that it had ordered the hotel to make improvements by Tuesday after it found operational flaws during an inspection of the restaurant.
But it did not make any statement on whether the illnesses of the hotel's guests were related to those operational flaws.
The city's Office of Food and Drug Safety said it conducted an inspection of the restaurant on Saturday and took eight samples for testing, including two ingredients and six environmental items, but the results were not yet available as of today.
It also ordered the restaurant to suspend operations in its kitchen, and said it could only resume operations after passing a subsequent re-inspection by the food safety office, it added.
Among the issues found by inspectors were accumulations of dirt on the ceiling and in air vents in the kitchen and restaurant seating area, and food containers being placed on the ground.
The office said it had conducted 12 inspections of the hotel's restaurant and kitchen over the past year, and all of them found the hotel to be in compliance with regulations.
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