厨房工作人员被指示使用不可食用的油漆来提升餐食外观，以吸引更多学生，法院认定Rorey Bosotti 2分钟前 一名幼儿园园长及其五名员工因被发现向超过200名儿童提供含铅有毒食物而被判入狱。
Kitchen staff was instructed to use inedible paint to enhance the look of meals to attract more students, the court found Rorey Bosotti 2 minutes ago A nursery owner and five members of her staff have been jailed after they were found to have poisoned more than 200 children with lead-tainted food.
据中国国家媒体报道，甘肃省天水市和氏培新幼儿园园长李慧芳因生产和销售有毒有害食品被判处无期徒刑。
Li Huifang, who operated the Heshi Peixin Kindergarten in Tianshui, in the Gansu province, was sentenced to life in prison for producing and selling toxic and harmful food, according to Chinese state media.
2025年7月，该幼儿园的247名学生和员工在儿童开始出现不适后被检测出血铅含量异常升高。
In July 2025, 247 pupils and staff at the nursery were found to have abnormally high blood lead levels after children began falling ill.
对该事件的调查发现，和氏培新幼儿园的厨师们使用不可食用油漆来“提升餐食外观”，以吸引更多学生——尽管该油漆明确标注为不可食用。
A report into the incident found that chefs at Heshi Peixin had used inedible paint to "enhance the look" of its meals to attract more students - despite the paint being being clearly marked as such.
除了刑罚外，兰州市中级人民法院还下令没收李慧芳个人资产50万元（约合56,200英镑；74,700美元），中央广播电视总台CCTV报道。
In addition to the sentence, the Lanzhou Intermediate People's Court also ordered the confiscation of 500,000 yuan (£56,200; $74,700) of Li's personal assets, state broadcaster CCTV reported.
幼儿园执行园长智京林被判处有期徒刑15年，并处罚款30万元。
Nursery executive principal Zhi Jinglin was sentenced to 15 years in prison and fined 300,00 yuan.
根据国家媒体报道，幼儿园厨房的其他四名工作人员因受李慧芳和智京林指示，在供给儿童和员工的食物中添加有毒有害成分，被判处六年至八年不等的有期徒刑。
Four other members of staff who worked in the nursery's kitchen received sentences of between six to eight years, according to state media. The court found the four had been instructed by Li and Zhi to add toxic and harmful ingredients to food served to children and staff.
随后对食物样本的检测发现，其中含铅量超过中国国家安全标准的2000倍。
Food samples were later found to contain lead 2,000 times in excess of China's national safety limit.
此次铅中毒事件的调查始于和氏培新幼儿园有235名儿童在食用蒸红枣糕和香肠玉米包子后出现中毒症状需接受治疗。
The investigation into the poisoning began after 235 children from Heshi Peixin nursery had to be treated for lead poisoning after eating steamed red date cakes and sausage corn buns.
调查人员发现，红枣糕和香肠玉米卷的铅含量分别为1052毫克/千克和1340毫克/千克，远超国家食品安全标准限值0.5毫克/千克。
Investigators found that the red date cake and the corn sausage rolls had lead levels of 1052mg/kg and 1340mg/kg respectively, both of which far exceed the national food safety standard limit of 0.5mg/kg.
根据世界卫生组织的说法，铅中毒“对幼儿尤为有害”，并且“可能严重损害大脑和中枢神经系统”。
Lead poisoning is "particularly harmful to young children" and can "severely damage the brain and central nervous system", according to the World Health Organization.
官员们后来发现，数十名省级官员和医院工作人员试图通过篡改血液检测结果和接受托儿所投资者的贿赂来掩盖此事。
Officials later found that dozens of provincial officials and hospital staff attempted to cover up the incident by tampering with blood tests and accepting bribes from a nursery investor.
中国此后发布了一套关于校园供餐的国家指南。其中包括要求每一批新食品必须进行检测，以及面粉、大米和食用油只能从集中采购点采购的规定。
China has since published a set of national guidelines for the provision of meals on campuses. Among the measures is the requirement for every new batch of food to be tested, and for flour, rice and cooking oil to be purchased from centralised procurement points only. China