- It is not known what was on the menu or what caused the mass food poisoning
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More than 700 Airbus Atlantic staff in Western France have fallen ill after food poisoning from their company’s Christmas dinner, according to health authorities.
The workers from the aerospace group’s site experienced vomiting and diarrhoea, the ARS health agency said.
It is not known what was on the menu for the festive dinner.
There is also no current information available about what caused the dinner on December 15 to turn into a nightmare.
An investigation is being launched to find the source of the mass food poisoning.
It comes after a separate incident in France earlier this year in which a number of people fell ill and a Greek national died after eating at a Bordeaux restaurant.
They had contracted the rare food-borne illness, botulism.
The Airbus group, a European consortium, is the world’s largest aircraft maker ahead of Boeing. It employs 134,000 people.
Airbus Atlantic, a subsidiary of aerospace group Airbus, employs 15,000 people in five countries.
An Airbus spokesman claimed that only 100 people were taken ill.
They told MailOnline: ‘On Friday 15th December, around 100 Airbus Atlantic employees were taken ill after contracting a food-borne illness after eating the company-organised Christmas lunch.
‘This appears to be an isolated event and all employees are recovering well.
‘The health of our employees remains our primary concern and we are fully cooperating with the ARS health agency to identify the cause of the illness and ensure this cannot happen again in the future.’
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