According to local sources, the employees started feeling sick after visiting the canteen of the office building.
11:16•Updated 11:31
Dozens of employees of Bytedance, the company that owns Tiktok, have been hospitalized due to food poisoning in Singapore. Among other things, the news covered the matter British media BBC.
According to the local authorities, up to 60 people got symptoms of food poisoning. 57 of them have been hospitalized due to symptoms.
The incident happened at Bytedance’s premises on Tuesday afternoon local time. According to local media, a total of 17 ambulances were dispatched to the site.
Bytedance has said that it is investigating what caused the employees to fall ill. The incident is also being investigated by the Food and Drug Administration of Singapore and the Ministry of Health. According to media information, food is not prepared at the company’s premises, but the company orders its food services from elsewhere.
News channel CNA’s according to Bytedance has said that its employees fell ill after they had visited the canteen of the company’s premises, where food had been served.
According to an unnamed employee interviewed by CNA, people had severe stomach symptoms after lunchtime, and some were lying on the floor because of their symptoms.
Bytedance is a company founded in 2012 by Chinese entrepreneurs. Its most successful product is the social media service Tiktok, which has more than a billion active users around the world. However, Tiktok is not available in China.
I tiktok websites according to it has headquarters in Los Angeles and Singapore. The head office of parent company Bytedance is located in Beijing, China.
The controversial Tiktok service has attracted a lot of criticism in Western countries. For example, the United States has decided that the service must be banned or sold within a certain period of time. Discussions about Tiktok’s problems have also taken place in the EU and Finland.
The matter was corrected on 31.7. at 11:31 am: The headline incorrectly stated that it is Tiktok’s parent company’s headquarters, when it is Tiktok’s headquarters. The head office of parent company Bytedance is located in Beijing.