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1858 Bradford sweets poisoning: candy: arsenic trioxide: England ~200: 20: Arsenic was accidentally sold as "daft". Daft was a standard adulterant to bulk up the candy 2005: Mabini food poisoning incident [35] fritters: carbamate: Philippines ~100: 28
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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.
5. Taco Bell (2006) In 2006, Taco Bell was asked to provide ingredient samples by the CDC and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) after numerous E. coli cases were linked to the Tex-Mex giant ...
A CDC study on listeria outbreaks from 1998 through 2014 attributed 30% of the cases to soft cheese, which due to its higher moisture content, is a better host for the pathogen than hard cheese ...
Food poisoning, also known as foodborne illness, is a common sickness caused by swallowing food or liquids that contain harmful bacteria, viruses or parasites, and sometimes even chemicals.
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 ...
Some 72,000 pounds of meat and poultry products from Yu Shang Food Inc., a Spartanburg-based company, were recalled. 11 listeria cases, 1 infant death linked to South Carolina food processor, CDC says