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On September 12, during the All Japan Corporate Team Championships in athletics, held at Takebishi Stadium Kyoto in Ukyo Ward, Kyoto City, 28 event officials reported symptoms including diarrhea and vomiting and were taken to hospital. According to follow-up reports shared in the thread, 2 were in serious condition, 3 in moderate condition, and 23 in mild condition; athletes, coaches, and other team members who competed were not among those affected, since they had eaten boxed lunches they brought themselves. The thread focused on questions like why only the organizing staff ate heavy boxed lunches such as katsu-toji (pork cutlet simmered in egg), and how the food had been temperature-managed during storage, with posters trading various theories about the lunches’ contents and their relationship to the weather.
Published 9/12 (Sat) 20:39
Jiji Press
Around 4:30 p.m. on the 12th, facility staff called emergency services (119) after multiple people reported symptoms including diarrhea and vomiting at Takebishi Stadium Kyoto in Ukyo Ward, Kyoto City, where the All Japan Corporate Team Championships in athletics were being held.
Source: news.yahoo.co.jp / Original article here
What people said
Wonder if there'll be lasting aftereffects
Could end up needing dialysis
Re: #6
>Around 28 event officials (up to their 70s) were taken to hospital, 2 in serious condition. 3 moderate (these needed an ambulance), 23 mild.
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>Athletes, coaches, and other team members didn't eat the lunch in question (since they brought their own), so they're not included in the count.
You trying to start something with Trial's 299-yen pork loin cutlet rice bowl?
Back in the day people just powered through with germs and all, didn't they?
At street stalls we'd even pick yakisoba up off the ground and eat it
Never had any health problems from it
We're too used to living germ-free
Everyone's gone soft all over
More than that, it's because detection accuracy for mass food-poisoning outbreaks has gotten insanely good
and it was only 28 people?
Maybe they sensed something was off?
Apparently none of the athletes, managers, or coaches ate it
Oh really
The teens are probably athletes' family members
Maybe they bundled all the bento reservations into one order
You wouldn't eat something as heavy as katsu-toji right before running
Gotta watch out for food poisoning
Maybe they made it ahead of time?
>Most of the bacteria that cause food poisoning multiply most actively at 25-37°C. Food-poisoning bacteria also tend to prefer humid environments.
Even if it feels cool, the current temperatures being like this "all day long" is actually the worst case
Makes you wonder if abnormal weather is changing how bacteria and viruses develop too
That's your takeaway?
People think "it's cool so we're fine" or cut corners to save money
Isn't it just that management got sloppy?
It can hold down other bacteria too
Haha, natto-bacteria muffin. Well, guess you could just eat it alongside a natto roll
Is there any solid research paper proving natto actually prevents food poisoning?
get treated like little more than volunteers —
like, just this one bento
and that's it
So that basically means it's entirely their own responsibility, huh
They're not selling it outdoors in summer, are they
Lately in Kanagawa it's actually cooler outside
Even if it's "lower," once it's above 25°C the risk of food poisoning shoots up like crazy
If the organizers left them sitting at room temperature for a while after delivery,
that's rough on the bento shop…
Though I do wonder why they went with katsu-toji bento
It's filling, keeps you going longer
They need to be in a fridge or a room blasted cold with AC — otherwise it's no good
So you eat it cold, straight up?
Background and key points of this story
The All Japan Corporate Team Championships is a nationwide athletics event hosted by Japan’s corporate/industrial-league athletic federation, and athletes and coaches typically eat meals prepared by their own teams — likely why, in this case too, bringing their own boxed lunches kept them out of harm’s way. Those affected, meanwhile, were the staff supporting the event’s operations, and the boxed lunches provided to them are suspected as the cause. Opinion in the thread split between the view that “people have simply gotten weaker than they used to be” and the view that “this has always happened at some baseline rate — it’s just that testing and reporting have gotten better,” though both remain speculation. Whether food-poisoning cases are actually rising, or whether more cases are simply being caught, can’t be determined from this incident alone — that would require waiting on the health department’s findings on the causative agent and how the food was stored, a nuance easy to miss from the headline alone.
*This article is compiled and summarized from the 5ch (News Speed+) thread “[Kyoto] 28 Track Meet Officials Suspected of Food Poisoning, Boxed Lunches Suspected — All Japan Corporate Championships“.
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