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Jump to full article: AP, 2006-06-26
Intro: Thirty Cambodians suffered food poisoning after eating homemade noodles contaminated with chewing tobacco that had dropped into the batter from the cook's mouth, police said Monday.
The victims, mostly children, began vomiting after eating noodle soup for breakfast Friday in a village in Banteay Meanchey province . . .
Sieng Sang, an avid tobacco chewer like many poor Cambodian women, said she had not realized a wad had dropped into the flour as she was talking.
Police gave her a lesson in hygiene and told her to be more careful when opening her mouth while cooking, Yort Ray said.
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