Tainted food was concluded as the culprit in the hospitalization of nearly 1,000 workers at a South Korean-owned garment company in the Mekong Delta Province of Tien Giang last week.  

Dan Tri online newspaper quoted the Vietnam Food Administration as saying on Thursday that Salmonella was found in some of the food samples taken from lunch served at Wondo Vina Company last Thursday.  

Wondo Vina workers started having symptoms like stomachache, vomiting, headache, diarrhea, and fever around midnight Thursday, and the next morning 968 of them were admitted to Cho Gao District’s general hospital, including 171 in serious condition. A team of health workers was sent to the company to check and treat another 150 workers who had slight symptoms.  Half the patients were discharged later that same day, and no fatality has been reported so far.