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An "incident" of chemical food contamination may be defined as an episodic occurrence of adverse health effects in humans (or animals that might be consumed by humans) following high exposure to particular chemicals, or instances where episodically high concentrations of chemical hazards were detected in the food chain and traced back to a particular event.
This was the first incident in the UK in which botulism was conclusively identified as the cause and remains the only large incident of microbial food contamination in the UK with 100% reported fatalities. 1971: 1971 botulism case from Bon Vivant soup: botulinum toxin: vichyssoise soup: Bon Vivant Company: 2 [27] 1 [27] 1996: 1996 Odwalla E ...
Cases of food poisoning began to be reported in the New York State area on October 18, 2012. The CDC eventually concluded this was an example of O157:H7, its code for a strain of E. coli that is noteworthy for seeming to have genes from a different species, shigella, producing an unusual toxin, though not one especially lethal to human beings ...
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.
2001 Nigeria cholera epidemic 2001 Nigeria: Cholera: 400+ [231] 2001 South Africa cholera epidemic 2001 South Africa: Cholera: 139 [232] [233] 2002–2004 SARS outbreak: 2002–2004 Worldwide Severe acute respiratory syndrome / SARS: 774 [234] 2003–2019 Asia and Egypt avian influenza epidemic 2003–2019 China, Southeast Asia and Egypt
President Donald Trump’s mission to upend the U.S. Agency for International Development, a government organization tasked with alleviating global poverty and providing humanitarian relief, has ...
Mangroves remain very important to the indigenous people of Nigeria as well as to the various organisms that inhabit these ecosystems. Human impact from poor land management upstream coupled with the constant pollution of petroleum has caused 5–10% of these mangrove forests to disappear.
Nigeria gully erosion crisis, since before 1980; Exide lead contamination at seven locations in the United States, since 1989; Electronic waste in Guiyu, since the 1990s; 2006 Côte d'Ivoire toxic waste dump; In Thathri Disaster 2023, the land and residential houses started cracking in Nayi Basti Thathri of Jammu and Kashmir, India.