‘155 people were taken to municipal clinic # 40 and 15 people to central clinic # 2 from IKEA construction site yesterday. Eight of them had to be immediately transferred to the intensive care unit; their condition was quite severe but by now, things have improved. The condition of 105 people can be characterized as moderately severe; the condition of 57 people is described as not severe. ‘The life of the patients is out of danger now, but they will only be allowed to leave the hospitals after the doctors actually identify the toxico-infectious microbial flora that was at the back of the food

At 9 PM on July 12, 2006, the public prosecution authorities of Verkh-Isetskiy District of Yekaterinburg commenced a criminal lawsuit concerning the alleged violation of sanitary-and-hygienic regulations that led to food poisoning of over 150 builders from IKEA construction site, reports the spokesperson for the Public Prosecutor of Sverdlovsk Region. The preliminary investigation shed some light on the events of July 12: at about 6 PM, over 90 Turkish and Tajik citizens with symptoms of food poisoning were brought into municipal clinic # 40 directly from the construction site. It turned out