Eight arrested after hundreds of children fall ill with lead poisoning - The children have symptoms including stomach and leg pain and hair loss

Eight individuals have been arrested in China following a food safety scandal in which over 200 kindergarten children in Gansu province were diagnosed with lead poisoning after consuming contaminated meals at their school.

Food at the private school contained more than 2,000 times the legal lead limit, triggering arrests and a sweeping probe into China’s worst kindergarten food safety case in years.