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BEIJING - SOME 170 wedding banquet guests were rushed to hospital when powdered rust remover was added to the pot instead of salt after they all decided it needed spicing up a bit.
The bride's proud father invited friends and relatives to the banquet at a village in northern Hebei province on Friday, the night before the wedding, the Beijing News said.
'All food was stewed in a big pot but after dinner started, all of them felt the taste was too bland,' the newspaper said.
Someone added what he or she thought was salt - several times. An hour later, the guests were being rushed to hospital.
'When I arrived at the hospital, the observation room was packed with people vomiting, with stomach pains and with diarrhoea,' a doctor was quoted as saying.
The symptoms were short-lived and all the victims were released by the next day.
China has been hit by a series of food-safety scares in recent years, most recently when thousands of infants fell sick from contaminated milk powder. At least four died.
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