Citation

Meng Z, Li Z, Jin J, Zhang Y, Liu X, Yiang X, Ren H. Biomed. Environ. Sci. 1988; 1(1): 101-104.

Affiliation

Institute of Nutrition and Food Hygiene, Chinese Academy of Preventive Medicine, Beijing.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1988, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention and Chinese Academy of Preventive Medicine, Publisher Academic Press)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

3268103

Abstract

An outbreak of a new type of fatal food poisoning has been reported in different parts of the People's Republic of China. Liver, kidney, heart, and brain were the main target organs, and the overall fatality of intoxicated individuals was 38.2%. Evidence obtained from epidemiological studies and animal tests indicates that the food poisoning was caused by the consumption of homemade fermented corn flour products.

Language: en