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St. Petersburg Investigators Probe Reported College Cafeteria Poisoning

Prosecutors now supervise checks into the cafeteria’s sanitary compliance.

Overview

  • The city Investigative Committee opened a pre-investigation after reports that students fell ill following a visit to a college cafeteria on October 29.
  • Emergency-service sources said seven students sought medical care with a preliminary finding of intestinal infection.
  • The St. Petersburg prosecutor’s office announced a review of the college’s catering for adherence to sanitary-epidemiological rules.
  • Rospotrebnadzor and law-enforcement inquiries are underway under prosecutorial control, and the exact cause has not been determined.
  • TASS reported the case involves a college in the Moskovsky District, and a civic figure said she forwarded student complaints about unsanitary conditions to authorities, which officials have not confirmed.