9 members of one family die in China after consuming noodles

Nine people in the same family died in China after consuming a meal of noodles that was left in the refrigerator for a while.

The British "Mirror" newspaper reported that "noodles", which had been kept in the refrigerator for more than a year, contained fermented cornmeal that had poisoned the family with pungric acid.

Seven adults from Jixi city in northeast China's Heilongjiang Province died on October 10 after eating the dish called "Swantangzi", a local Chinese food, for five days.

Media reports said the last surviving family member ate the soup, a woman locally called "Li", who died on Monday.

Fortunately, during the family event, three children refused to eat "noodle" soup because they did not like its taste.

Gao Fei, director of food safety at the Heilongjiang Center for Disease Control and Prevention, said poisoning with bongric acid is often fatal.

Symptoms of poisoning usually begin within a few hours of eating contaminated food and include stomach pain, sweating, and coma.

And death can occur within 24 hours.

Pungric acid is a deadly toxin produced in fermented coconut.

And the traditional Indonesian dish, "tempe pongkrik", was banned after it was linked to several deaths.

Between 1951 and 1975, an average of 288 poisonings and 34 deaths attributed to pungric acid were reported in Indonesia each year.