The workers, most of them women, were hospitalised when they started vomiting and reporting stomach pains after drinking water supplied by the factory in the industrial town of Ashulia, local police chief Badrul Alam told AFP.
“About 450 workers were taken to different hospitals,” Alam said, adding that most have since been released.
The factory called Rose Limited was also hit by mass food poisoning on Friday night when about 200 workers were taken to hospital after eating dinner supplied by the workplace, Mustafizur Rahman, a director of the Industrial Police, told AFP.
The incident is the latest setback for the industry.
It follows the collapse of a building housing garment factories in April that killed more than 1,100 people and triggered renewed scrutiny of “made-in-Bangladesh” clothes commonly sold in the West.
In recent weeks more than 1,000 workers have fallen ill at several garment factories, a phenomenon that medical experts have said could be a type of mass hysteria triggered by psychological distress.
Some 600 workers fell sick at a factory outside the capital in early June, but microbiologists found nothing wrong with drinking water supplied.
Experts said the illness can be triggered by big events or tragedies like the Rana Plaza disaster in which five factories collapsed within minutes on April 24, trapping over 3,000 workers and killing 1,129.
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