95 suffer food poisoning after eating lunches at Shinagawa Prince Hotel

(mainichi.jp) -- Ninety-five people who ate bento lunches during a training workshop at Shinagawa Prince Hotel earlier this month suffered food poisoning symptoms and five were hospitalized, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government said.

Officials at the metropolitan government's Bureau of Social Welfare and Public Health said the symptoms were light in all of the cases, and all of the people were recovering.

Mianto Public Health Center officials said the people appeared to have suffered food poisoning from bacteria called Clostridium perfringens. Cooking in the hotel kitchen that produced the lunches was suspended for six days from Tuesday over the incident.

A total of 495 people were at the workshop, which was held on June 12 and 13. The 95 people who experienced food poisoning symptoms all ate a bento lunch handed out on June 12.