The Department of Health is investigating after hundreds of employees got sick after a holiday luncheon.
According to a company spokesperson, 800 Watson Clinic employees were treated to a catered lunch at the main clinic location on Lakeland Hills Boulevard last week.
After the event, the company confirms that more than 250 employees suddenly got sick with stomach symptoms such as nausea and vomiting.
The Department of Health is working to trace the source of the illness.
A Watson Clinic spokesperson emailed the following statement:
Watson Clinic is currently working with the Florida Department of Health to determine the cause of the illness that afflicted over 200 of our employees following last week’s holiday luncheon. Out of concern for the employees that were affected by the illness we are not requiring employees that had to miss work due to this luncheon-related illness to use personal paid time off.
