{"id":2240,"date":"2024-07-31T13:00:34","date_gmt":"2024-07-31T13:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/31\/tiktok-hq-staff-hit-by-mass-food-poisoning-outbreak\/"},"modified":"2024-07-31T13:00:34","modified_gmt":"2024-07-31T13:00:34","slug":"tiktok-hq-staff-hit-by-mass-food-poisoning-outbreak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/31\/tiktok-hq-staff-hit-by-mass-food-poisoning-outbreak\/","title":{"rendered":"TikTok HQ staff hit by mass food poisoning outbreak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dozens of workers at\u00a0TikTok-owner ByteDance\u2019s office in Singapore have fallen ill in a mass food poisoning incident.<\/p>\n<p>At least 60 people developed gastroenteritis symptoms \u2013 which include cramps, diarrhoea and vomiting \u2013 with 57 of them seeking hospital treatment.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sdc-site-outbrain sdc-site-outbrain--AR_6\">    <\/div>\n<p>ByteDance told Sky News it is investigating the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Seventeen ambulances, fire engines, a mass decontamination vehicle and Singapore Civil Defence Force were sent to the ByteDance offices, The Straits Times reported.<\/p>\n<p>Sky News understands ByteDance uses external suppliers in its office canteen and no food is prepared on-site.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad ad--teads\">        <\/div>\n<p>\u201cWe are investigating the matter and are working with the relevant authorities on this,\u201d a ByteDance spokesperson told Sky News.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe take the health and safety of our employees very seriously.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>They added the company had \u201ctaken immediate steps to support all affected employees, including working with emergency services to provide care\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>In a joint statement sent to CNBC, part of Sky\u2019s US partner network NBC News, the Singapore Food Agency and Ministry of Health said they were investigating suspected gastroenteritis cases on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs of 30 July 2024, 60 individuals were reported to have developed gastroenteritis symptoms, of whom 57 have sought medical attention in hospitals,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n<p>ByteDance was founded in China but has its headquarters in Singapore.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div>This post appeared first on sky.com<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dozens of workers at\u00a0TikTok-owner ByteDance\u2019s office in Singapore have fallen ill in a mass food&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":2241,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2240\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}