Foodborne Illness — China
The original post included a machine translation of the article that mentioned “…experts at Guangdong Province CDC provisionally confirmed the event was caused by bongkrekic acid poisoning.”
According to the revised translation below, “…the incident was caused by rice yeast acidosis.”
ProMED apologizes for the error in translation that misidentified the toxin as bongkrekic acid, which can form on rice but does not necessarily produce the clinical signs noted in the original article.
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