“The investigation department in the city of Balashikha, the State Investigative Directorate of the Investigative Committee of Russia, organized a check on the fact of the provision of services that did not meet the safety requirements, entailing hospitalization with signs of poisoning of 12 people,” Interfax reports the investigators.

The Rospotrebnadzor said that the preliminary diagnosis of the victims is acute gastroenteritis.

Earlier it was reported that in the Moscow region in Reutov, nine wards of the center for social services were hospitalized with signs of food poisoning.