On March 28th, Edley Kindergarten in Yibin Lingang Economic Development Zone resumed school, and more than 200 children met their teachers again with their parents. Four days ago,On the evening of March 23, some parents accidentally discovered that there were rotten pumpkins, dehydrated apples, expired sprouts, rotten pears and other problematic ingredients in the kitchen storage room of the kindergarten, and the parents immediately reported to the police.
The Red Star journalist learned that after the incident, the local social enterprise bureau of Lingang Economic Development Zone took the lead, and the local public security bureau, market supervision bureau and social governance bureau set up an investigation team to conduct an investigation; Health law enforcement officers sealed the problem ingredients found by parents and extracted food samples for inspection and testing; The public security organs controlled the relevant personnel to investigate, closed the storage room and retrieved and saved the surveillance videos of 12 surveillance cameras in the kitchen area for more than 6,000 hours for 21 days.
On April 2nd, Yibin Lingang Economic Development Zone issued a circular:The problem ingredients found by parents are all "qualified" after sampling and inspection; 379 children have all ruled out the possibility of food-borne diseases, and no chronic poisoning of organs such as liver, kidney and myocardial damage has been found; Zhong Hui, the director of the kindergarten, was ordered to be dismissed, the kitchen workers were dismissed from their labor contracts, and all the children involved resumed school. Yibin City Market Supervision Bureau will give a warning to Aideli Kindergarten, order it to rectify, and impose an administrative penalty of 22,000 yuan.
↑ Yibin Lingang Economic Development Zone Aideli Kindergarten resumed school.
① event restoration
After the parents’ meeting, parents offered to look at the kitchen.
It turns out that "problem ingredients"
The Red Star reporter learned that Aideli Kindergarten is a private kindergarten, located between the north and south areas of Bangtai International Community, Gouzhuang Road, Lingang Economic Development Zone, Yibin City, covering an area of more than 6,800 square meters, with an indoor area of 3,800 square meters and an activity venue of 3,000 square meters. Before the incident, there were 471 students in the park.
According to parents, parents were dissatisfied with the fact that only 25 students were recruited in a certain class for enrollment promotion, and then more and more students reached 35. On the afternoon of March 23rd, director Zhong Hui (legal representative of Cuiping Aideli Kindergarten Co., Ltd.) held a parent-teacher meeting to discuss the solution.
At the end of the day’s parent-teacher conference, some parents asked to have a look at the kitchen environment and sanitary conditions of the kindergarten. Many parents were allowed to enter the kitchen area for inspection, inspection and filming. In a locked hut, parents found pumpkin with moldy rot, apples with black spots, potatoes that began to sprout, rotten pears, expired sprouts, white powder suspected of industrial salt and other problematic ingredients. On this basis, parents suspected that Aili Kindergarten deliberately gave the children the above ingredients for profit, and expressed strong dissatisfaction.
↑ Shrinking apples photographed by parents
After the incident was exposed, many parents reported to reporters that their children had many symptoms such as abdominal pain, vomiting and fever, which was suspected to be related to their long-term eating of problematic ingredients in kindergarten.
Zhong Hui, director of the kindergarten, and Tang Shunhua, head of logistics, repeatedly explained that they did not give the children the problem ingredients, but they did not provide evidence for their claims.
② Admission examination
Most of the 379 students were normal.
Liver and kidney function damage and bacterial infection have not been found yet.
The Red Star journalist noticed that the Lingang Aili Kindergarten is 2.3 kilometers away from the Women and Children’s Hospital of Yibin Second People’s Hospital (Huaxi Hospital Yibin Hospital) and 4.1 kilometers away by car.
According to the data provided by the hospital, there were 117 children in the park for examination on March 24th, and 95 children on March 25th. Since then, parents have taken their children to the hospital for examination. As of March 30th, a total of 379 kindergarten students were admitted to the hospital for examination.
On March 27th, the head of pediatrics department of Yibin Second Hospital Women and Children’s Hospital (pediatrician) said that these children who went to the hospital for examination were divided into three categories: the first category did not report any symptoms, but parents thought that they were relieved after examination; The second category is children who report paroxysmal abdominal pain;The third category is children with fever, cough, diarrhea and vomiting, but the proportion is very small, only a few cases.
The main items of the students in Aideli Kindergarten are liver function, kidney function, blood analysis and myocardium. The children who report abdominal pain are added with abdominal color Doppler ultrasound, and the children who are accompanied by other manifestations such as fever, cough, vomiting, diarrhea, etc., then the examination items are added on the basis of the above examinations. The results showed that no children with liver, kidney and myocardial damage were found, and no children with bacterial infection were found.
↑ Kindergarten recipes displayed by parents
Pediatric experts say that food poisoning can be divided into acute food poisoning and chronic food poisoning. Acute food poisoning is due to the clinical manifestations of abdominal pain, vomiting, diarrhea, fever and so on within a few hours after eating a large number of spoiled food or contaminated food at one time, and it can be cured in about one week after being examined by a doctor. Chronic food poisoning is due to the fact that after eating a small amount of deteriorated or polluted food for a long time, it may not be manifested as digestive tract symptoms, but may cause certain harm to human liver and kidney function.
"Therefore, we can know whether there is the possibility of chronic food poisoning by taking blood and checking the function of liver and kidney. Generally, after half a month to one month, you can know whether there is chronic food poisoning by reviewing liver and kidney function. " Experts say that the common cold can also cause symptoms similar to acute food poisoning, but acute food poisoning will not cause sore throat, only a cold will.
After examination, a considerable number of children showed "mesenteric lymph nodes" and "mesenteric lymph nodes enlargement" by abdominal color Doppler ultrasound. According to pediatricians, this is because children between the ages of six months and seven or eight years are in the development stage of their lymph nodes, and generally "mesenteric lymph nodes" can be found in abdominal color Doppler ultrasound. For example, when children have infectious diseases such as colds or enteritis recently, lymph nodes, as one of the immune organs, will have the phenomenon of "reactive proliferation", which is generally unrelated to abdominal pain.
③ Reporter’s investigation
12 monitoring probes record the internal situation of the kitchen.
The investigation team has copied 6000 hours of video. Parents can apply for viewing.
On March 24th, when interviewing Zhong Hui, the Red Star journalist insisted that he had never given the children the problem ingredients, claiming that what was discovered by the parents was the ingredients that were "cleaned but not cleaned" by the kindergarten logistics managers, but Zhong Hui could not provide evidence. Because of this, Zhong Hui and the kindergarten can’t win the trust of parents no matter how to explain it to their parents.
Zhang Momei is one of the kitchen staff of Aideli Kindergarten. She and her colleague Gong Moshu are mainly responsible for choosing vegetables, washing vegetables, cutting vegetables and preparing meals.At the same time, Zhang Momei is also a parent of students. Her son is seven years old and is currently attending a large class in Aideli Kindergarten. Gong Moshu’s granddaughter also goes to Edley Kindergarten.
The surveillance video shows that both children have dinner with classmates in this class, and there is no small kitchen arrangement.
↑ The granddaughter of Gong Moshu, a kitchen worker, dined with her classmates.
"Every day, vegetables and meat are delivered from nearby supermarkets, but only old pumpkins, melons, potatoes, tomatoes, fruits and other storable ingredients are put into the storage room." Zhang Momei felt very wronged and choked several times during the interview. She was worried that if she lost her job, her children would be affected.
"Director Tang (Tang Shunhua) will emphasize to us at every meeting that we should carefully check the ingredients and throw away the bad ones." Zhang Momei told reporters that she had thrown bad tomatoes and other ingredients herself.
Regarding the question that parents questioned why teachers didn’t eat with students, Zhang Momei said that teachers and kitchen staff should have the same recipes and eat the same dishes as children. However, because teachers and staff have a heavy taste (salt and pepper), children have a light taste and don’t eat pepper, so they have a separate menu.
↑ The son of Zhang Momei, a kitchen worker, dined with his classmates.
According to Lian Xiao, a shareholder of Aideli Kindergarten, there are 126 4-megapixel high-definition cameras installed in the kindergarten, including 12 in the kitchen area, which are located in the kitchen aisle, rough processing area, decontamination area, storage room (pastry room), cutting and matching area, cooking area and catering area. Whether there are people or not, these monitoring probes are like robots that open their eyes and work 24 hours a day.
The surveillance video of the kitchen area tuned by the Red Star journalist shows that at about 20: 25: 20 on March 23, six parents entered the kitchen area accompanied by three kindergarten staff, including Tang Shunhua. Parents check and take photos all the way. At about 21: 02: 23, Tang Shunhua opened the storage room and six parents filed in.
The video shows that the storage room is small, with a fresh-keeping cabinet and a double-layer stainless steel shelf. There are six cartons, a stainless steel pot and other ingredients on the upper shelf; There is a barrel of oil and two plastic boxes on the lower floor. There is a bag of old pumpkins at the same height as the shelves, and there is an electric fan behind the door. Because the back of the fresh-keeping cabinet is facing the monitoring probe, you can’t see the situation inside. After entering the storage room, parents check the ingredients in the fresh-keeping cabinets and shelves one by one, and take videos and photos. At around 21: 08, parents found another red snakeskin pocket behind the old pumpkin pocket and took out two old pumpkins from it. Even by monitoring the video, it can be judged that these two old pumpkins have suspected moldy spots. These two old pumpkins are one of the ingredients that have been rotted and deteriorated since then.
"After paying so much money, you will give my baby this (moldy ingredients)?" In the online video that came out later, a female parent asked angrily. And this issue has also become the most concerned issue for other parents and netizens of more than 400 children.
↑ Screenshot of pumpkin video taken by parents.
According to the clue of the old pumpkin, the reporter continued to check the previous surveillance video. The video shows that parents found the pockets of moldy old pumpkins, which were placed here at least from March 10, until around 17: 51 on March 22, when Tang Shunhua and a security guard pulled in a large bag of old pumpkins, completely blocking the original old pumpkins and pockets.
Evidence seized by the investigation team, such as the kitchen ledger, warehousing list and transfer payment records of Aideli Kindergarten, shows that the latest records of Tang Shunhua’s purchase of old pumpkins are: 11 kg on March 1, 82 kg on March 3, 94 kg on March 5 and 90 kg on March 22. Other ingredients such as potatoes, wax gourd, apples, pears, walnuts, etc. have been recorded, and the investigation team has traced all the purchase channels of ingredients.
At present, the investigation team has copied the complete videos of 12 kitchens and the dining videos of some classes during the incident from March 3 to March 23, and the total duration of the monitoring videos exceeds 6,000 hours.
The Social Affairs Bureau of Yibin Lingang Economic Development Zone said that parents can apply for viewing at any time. However, the reporter found that it takes a huge amount of work to watch the video completely. Even if a person watches it day and night, it will take at least 250 days to watch it, and it will take 16 days to watch it at a speed of 16 times fast forward.
④ Official notification
No rotten ingredients were found in kindergartens.
The physical examination of 379 children was completed, and the possibility of food-borne disease outbreak was ruled out.
On April 2, Yibin Lingang Economic Development Zone issued a report on the investigation and handling of this incident.
According to the circular, after the incident, the market supervision branch of Lingang Economic Development Zone, under the witness of parents, checked the food purchase registration account of Aideli Kindergarten canteen overnight. On the morning of March 24th, the law enforcement detachment of Yibin Municipal Market Supervision Bureau went to the site to carry out an investigation. The Municipal Food and Drug Inspection and Testing Center extracted 11 batches of samples from the storage room of Aideli Kindergarten, of which one batch was industrial alkali for cleaning floor tiles (industrial salt from the internet), which did not belong to the category of ingredients; The remaining 10 batches of food samples are pumpkin, sweet potato, potato, apple, walnut, small fragrant pear, carrot, lotus flower (cabbage), pure salt and Linzhong brand pearl rice.
Yibin Food and Drug Inspection and Testing Center carried out a number of tests on 10 food samples, including sensory, acid value, peroxide value, heavy metals and pesticide residues.The test results show that,Yibin Jiudu brand sprouts expired and failed; There are traumatic scars and small superficial rot on the pumpkin epidermis; The sweet potato has hard spots and mechanical damage (because the number of sweet potatoes does not meet the standard of precision testing samples for instrument specialty, only sensory testing is carried out on sweet potatoes); One apple has epidermal atrophy; Market supervision and law enforcement officers found no rotten pears on the net in the whole bag of fragrant pears seized. Nine samples with testing conditions were tested by the Municipal Food and Drug Inspection and Testing Center, and no problems were found in the tested items.
The ingredients of Aideli Kindergarten were provided by 12 suppliers, including Jiangbei Xintian Vegetable Wholesale Market, Jiangbei Agricultural Products Wholesale Market and Rongrong Supermarket Ginza Store. The investigators sampled 8 batches of ingredients and traced them to the source respectively.
At the same time, the district public security bureau urgently investigated the relevant personnel of the kindergarten, and retrieved the 21-day monitoring records of 12 cameras in the canteen to check the whole process of food from storage to reprocessing from March 3 to March 23.
The survey shows that:In the process of processing meals in the park, the ingredients and fruits used were not found to be rotten.Among them: Walnut was purchased in pieces on March 22nd and placed in the storage room, and has not been used; Online apples were purchased on March 20, collected and processed by teachers in each class on March 21, and served as lunch for children, and the rest were placed in the fresh-keeping cabinet in the storage room; Net-delivered pumpkins were purchased on March 5th. When the remaining four pumpkins were used, a large number of new pumpkins were purchased in the canteen. The remaining four pumpkins in the previous batch were left unused in the corner of the storage room until the parents visited the canteen on the evening of March 23rd. Two of them were intact, and two pumpkins had traumatic scars and a small area of superficial rot. Net-delivered potatoes were purchased in bags on March 20, and were used to make lunch on March 22. After checking, the remaining potatoes, one of which had several obvious buds and a small amount of damage.
In response to the parents’ self-report that their children have abdominal pain and other symptoms, on March 24, the district health and health department urgently coordinated the top three hospitals (Yibin Second People’s Hospital) to open a green channel for physical examination, and at the same time formed a 10-member expert group to settle in the park to carry out health examination.By 18: 00 on March 28, 2022, 379 children who had volunteered for physical examination had all completed the examination and diagnosis. From the physical examination results, excluding the possibility of food-borne diseases, no chronic poisoning of organs such as liver, kidney and myocardial damage was found. The problem of children’s "mesenteric lymph nodes" reflected by some parents, under the guidance of pediatricians, belongs to the proliferation phenomenon during the establishment of the immune system in early childhood, suggesting strengthening the health protection of influenza, mosquito bites and trauma.
As of March 29th, 2022, most of the 471 children in Aideli Kindergarten have resumed their studies on the spot, and the rest of the children who are willing to transfer have been properly placed in four public kindergartens, including Yibin Shuangcheng No.1 Kindergarten, according to the principle of parents’ willingness and convenience nearby, and the refund of children’s fees is being carried out in an orderly manner.
The circular also stated that in view of the imperfect management mechanism of Aideli Kindergarten and the inadequate implementation of responsibilities, Aideli Kindergarten Management Co., Ltd. was ordered to remove the post of director of the kindergarten and terminate the labor contract for canteen staff; Send the director of Lingang No.1 Kindergarten and his management team to Aili Kindergarten to supervise and guide the conservation and canteen management of the park in an all-round way; Aideli Kindergarten was ordered to establish and improve the food safety supervision mechanism in the canteen as soon as possible, implement the system of teachers accompanying meals, upgrade the standard of bright kitchen, strictly enforce the traceability of food, establish a parents’ diet committee, and ensure parents’ participation in the food safety supervision in the kindergarten.
In view of Edley Kindergarten’s failure to clean up expired food in time and fulfill its food safety management responsibilities as required, Yibin Municipal Market Supervision Bureau will give the park a warning, order it to make rectification, and impose an administrative penalty of 22,000 yuan.
↑ Partial notification screenshot
⑤ Subsequent progress
The upgrade plan of "bright kitchen and bright stove" will be implemented
More than half of children who return to kindergarten choose to stay
The Red Star journalist learned that the incident of the problem of ingredients in Aideli Kindergarten has attracted great attention from the Party Working Committee of Yibin Lingang Economic Development Zone. The person in charge personally talked with the parents and asked the functional departments to find out the facts, ensure the health of young children, and seriously deal with relevant personnel.
On March 28th, Edley Kindergarten, which was suspended for two days, resumed school. Of the 471 children, 261 chose to stay. The other children resumed school in four public kindergartens, including Shuangcheng No.1 Kindergarten and Ximachi Kindergarten.
Red Star News reporter learned from the police in Lingang Economic Development Zone that after preliminary investigation, there was no crime in the incident of "problem ingredients" in Aideli children’s kitchen, so he handed over the relevant information and materials to Yibin market supervision department for investigation and handling.
On March 27th, the kitchen of Aideli Kindergarten was rectified according to the requirements of the Social Affairs Bureau, and it passed the inspection.And the implementation of the "bright kitchen" upgrade plan, the kitchen and some areas of surveillance video images displayed outside the kindergarten, subject to parental and social supervision.
On the morning of March 28th, nearly 10 parents interviewed randomly by Red Star journalists outside Aideli Kindergarten said that they were reluctant to transfer to the park because their children were reluctant to part with their teachers and classmates, or because they recognized their teachers and were close to home. "How to deal with the problem of kindergarten ingredients, how to deal with it, we pay more attention to the situation after rectification, and hope that this matter can promote management improvement." The concern of parent Mr. Chen represents the opinions of most parents of children who stay in the park.
↑ Children’s resumption of school
Red Star journalist Luo Min
