The lunch with fried rice, fried chicken, chips and meat soup might have poisoned 50 students at the Kim Giang Primary School on Tuesday.
As many as 50 primary students are hospitalised after having lunch prepared by their school in Hanoi on March 28.
According to a report from local authorities, Kim Giang Primary School organised a picnic for 915 grade 1 and grade 2 students at a local farm on Tuesday morning. The school prepared some food including fried rice, fried chicken, chips, and meat soup and brought it to the farm for lunch.
Lunch was served at 11 am. Besides having the food prepared by the school, students also had some snacks and drinks brought by themselves or served by the farm.
At 2 pm, some students showed signs of food poisoning including stomachaches, vomiting, and diarrhoea. Fifty students had been sent to hospital for treatment.
A representative from the food supplier for the school, Ngoi Sao Xanh Food Company, said that they cooked the food in the morning and transported it to the school at 9.45 am.
The Hanoi Food Safety and Hygiene Division have collected samples of foods and drinks served to the students during Tuesday lunch by the company and the farm for testing.
Late last year, one student died and 600 students at a school in central Khanh Hoa Province were rushed to hospital after lunch due to food poisoning.