Ukrainian Butter Causes Poisoning Of 609 St. Petersburg Children

Of the 609 children from four districts of St. Petersburg who were poisoned by food, 36 were taken to hospital. RIA Novosti learned on Wednesday that according to preliminary information, the poisoning was caused by Krestyanskoye butter of poor quality delivered to the city's children's pre-school establishments from the Ivano-Frankovsk region in Western Ukraine. -0 (tol/kri) 03/10/01 13:21