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Nine people from the same family died after eating noodles that were left in the freezer.
The noodles, which were kept in the freezer for more than a year, contained fermented cornmeal, which poisoned the family with bongrekik acid.
Seven adults from Jixi city in northeast China’s Heilongjiang province died on October 10 after eating the dish called Suantangzi, a local Chinese delicacy, five days earlier.
The last surviving family member to eat the soup, a woman locally named as Li, died on Monday, the Daily Star reports.
Fortunately, three children who had been served the corn noodle meal on the family occasion refused to eat it because they did not like the taste.
Gao Fei, director of food safety at the Heilongjiang Center for Disease Control and Prevention, told the Chinese News Service that bongkrek acid poisoning is often fatal.
Symptoms of bongkrek poisoning usually begin within hours of eating contaminated food and include stomach pain, sweating, general weakness, and eventual coma. Death can occur in 24 hours.
“It can cause serious damage to many human organs, including the liver, kidneys, heart and brain,” Gao said.
“Currently, there is no specific antidote. Once poisoned, the mortality rate can reach 40% to 100%. “
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Mr. Gao said that bongkrek acid is resistant to boiling at high temperatures.
Bongkrek acid is a deadly toxin produced in fermented coconut. The traditional Indonesian dish tempe bongkrèk has been banned because it has been linked to so many deaths.
Between 1951 and 1975, an average of 288 poisonings and 34 deaths attributed to bongkrek acid were reported in Indonesia each year.
Djenkol beans, another Indonesian delicacy, have also been blamed for numerous deaths.
Bongkrek acid contamination in locally produced beer was also responsible for 75 deaths and more than 200 hospitalizations after a funeral in Mozambique.
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