Would You Like Bleach with Your Doughnut?

 A Mister Donut store in Osaka mistakenly served drinking water with a large amount of bleach in it last Friday. After closing the shop, employees usually put the water pitchers in a sink to soak in a water and bleach mixture overnight, but a part-time employee instead filled the pitchers with the bleach, put the lids on, and left them to soak. The next morning, a different employee mistakenly thought someone had already rinsed the pitchers and prepared the drinking water, so it was served to customers. Starting around noon, three people, including a three-year-old and a female high school student,  felt sick and went to the hospital. About a dozen others reported symptoms, but no one became seriously ill.

This is all fine and good, but mainichi.jp reported the water contained 600 ppm of chlorine, or about 600 to 6000 times the amount of chlorine found in normal drinking water in Japan. In fact, 10 ppm of chlorine is thought to be too much even for a swimming pool. I don't mean to brag, but I think in a blind taste test I could tell the difference between tap water and pool water let alone poison cleaning water. The little kid drinking it I can kind of understand, but every other person must have thought, "Does the water kind of taste like death today? Oh well, I don't want to bother anyone."