Published on Tuesday, December 22, 2009
By LA Daily News Staff Writer
No sign of tampering was found in bottles of water from a vending machine that apparently led a dozen students at a suburban junior high school to complain of feeling sick, authorities said Friday.
Students at La Mesa Junior High School in Santa Clarita who said they drank from vended water bottles complained of nausea or discomfort on Thursday. They were examined at hospitals and released, Principal Pete Fries said Friday.
"It was kind of cloudy and it tasted kind of funny," eighth-grader Cody Commons told KTLA-TV from a hospital Thursday night. "A couple hours later I started feeling cramps."
No additional illnesses were reported Friday, Fries said.
"At this time, there's no evidence that the product was deliberately tampered with," FBI spokeswoman Laura Eimiller said Friday.
The incident in the city north of Los Angeles began when two students separately came to the school office with bottles of Aquafina brand water and complained of being nauseous, Fries said
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