Ninety-four workers who got food poisoning last Saturday in Suzhou Industrial Park, East China's Jiangsu Province, had all recovered and been discharged from two different hospitals by last night.

Workers suffering from food poisoning receive infusions in hospital.

Initial investigations by the police and government health departments found that the incident had probably been caused by bacteria contained in putrid pork cooked in the canteen of the park.

The Centre for Disease Control and Prevention in the Suzhou Industrial Park ordered the canteen to close immediately for improvements.

Between 4 am on Saturday and that same evening, 22 workers were sent to Loufeng Hospital in the industrial park. Hospital No 1 attached to Suzhou University said it had admitted 72 patients.

The doctors and nurses in Loufeng Hospital said the poisoned workers had some common symptoms, such as abdominal pain, diarrhoea, vomiting and fever. They were diagnosed as having food poisoning.

One middle-aged worker who refused to give his name said all of the poisoned workers came from the same building site in the industrial park. He and his fellow workers were working on the second stage of a project for the South Korean company Samsung.

"We were all poisoned by the food of the building site canteen,'' he said angrily. "Its food is always underdone and even sometimes smells strange.''

He said the canteen was run by the younger sister of the building site boss. The food was often not fresh, he added.

The worker said: "We hope that, after a thorough investigation, the departments concerned can uphold justice for us and protect our lawful rights.''

In the first six months of this year, China had 116 serious cases of food poisoning, with 89 people dying out of the 3,643 people poisoned.

In another development, 130 people were poisoned after eating at a funeral feast on Friday in the village of Wuligou Village in Chishui, Southwest China's Guizhou Province.

All the victims were taken to hospital and no deaths had been reported as of yesterday, according to Xinhua News Agency.

Experts said the incident appears to have been a case of food poisoning caused by bacteria.

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