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Beginning in late June 2007, 8 people contracted botulism poisoning by eating canned food products produced by Castleberry's Food Company in its Augusta, Georgia plant. It was later identified that the Castleberry's plant had serious production problems on a specific line of retorts that had under-processed the cans of food.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), consumption of the bacteria of concern, clostridium botulinum, can cause food-borne botulism—a rare but potentially fatal type of food poisoning ...
Before modern microbiology, foodbourne illness was not understood, and, from the mid 1800s to early-mid 1900s, was perceived as ptomaine poisoning, caused by a fundamental flaw in understanding how it worked. While the medical establishment ditched ptomaine theory by the 1930s, it remained in the public consciousness until the late 1960s and ...
Foodborne illness (also known as foodborne disease and food poisoning) [1] is any illness resulting from the contamination of food by pathogenic bacteria, viruses, or parasites, [2] as well as prions (the agents of mad cow disease), and toxins such as aflatoxins in peanuts, poisonous mushrooms, and various species of beans that have not been boiled for at least 10 minutes.
You'll want to check your stash as soon as you can. ... Canned Tuna Recalled Due To Potentially Fatal Form of Food Poisoning. Nathan Hutsenpiller. February 11, 2025 at 11:30 AM.
The issue could affect the seal of the product over time causing it to leak or be contaminated with clostridium botulinum, a “potentially fatal form of food poisoning,” per the recall.
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The most common causes of food poisoning include various infectious organisms like "bacteria, viruses, and parasites," which can contaminate food at any stage of production and/or preparation.