Food poisoning sickens 70 in south China

More than 70 workers at an American-owned factory in south China's Guangdong Province fell ill due to suspected food poisoning, local authorities said Monday.

Nineteen of them have been hospitalized.

The disease control watchdog blamed salmonella for the incident.

The sickened all work for a packaging company employing more than 500 people in the city of Guangzhou, China's third largest city.