Three out of 69 people who were hospitalised on October 26 after drinking homemade rice wine in Kampong Cham province’s Stung Trang district have died, with laboratory test results confirming that the wine contained dangerous levels of methanol.
Infants and young children, pregnant women, the elderly and people with chronic illnesses are the most vulnerable to food safety problems, with the World Health Organisation (WHO) estimating that more than 220 million children suffer from diarrhea and over 96,000 die from food insecurity every year.