Seventy employees of a plastic company were hospitalized for suspected food poisoning in east China's Zhejiang Province on Monday.

The victims, all from the Zhongmao Plastic Industrial Co. Ltd. in Jiaxing City, have been suffering from vomiting and other symptoms after they ate lunch, an employee Tang Shunhu told Xinhua.

They are being treated at two hospitals in Jiaxing.

(Xinhua News Agency November 10, 2008)