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	From Hong Kong's Information Services Department

February 19, 2009

Food safety

12 sick after lunch buffet

The Centre for Health Protection is investigating a food poisoning case involving 12 people.

The five men and seven women aged 19 to 56 came down with gastroenteritis symptoms after a lunch buffet at a Kowloon hotel on February 10.

Six sought treatment and did not require hospitalisation. All are stable.