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  2. List of foodborne illness outbreaks in the United States

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    Botulism in Clovis, New Mexico. 34 people who ate at a restaurant, Colonial Park Country Club, developed clinical botulism in the second-largest outbreak in United States history. The outbreak was traced to either potato salad or a commercially prepared three-bean salad served to a group attending a banquet.

  3. Botulism - Wikipedia

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    Botulism can occur in many vertebrates and invertebrates. Botulism has been reported in such species as rats, mice, chicken, frogs, toads, goldfish, aplysia, squid, crayfish, drosophila and leeches. [95] Death from botulism is common in waterfowl; an estimated 10,000 to 100,000 birds die of botulism annually. The disease is commonly called ...

  4. List of foodborne illness outbreaks by death toll - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. Foodborne illness - Wikipedia

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    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.

  6. 10 of the most common food-safety myths, debunked - AOL

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    8) Once food has been cooked, all the bacteria have been killed The possibility of bacterial growth actually increases after cooking, because the drop in temperature allows bacteria to thrive. 9 ...

  7. Loch Maree Hotel botulism poisoning - Wikipedia

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    However, botulism did not become a notifiable disease in the UK until 1949. [8] The events at Loch Maree are now used as a case study in the detection of food poisoning. [ 4 ] Similar outbreaks are considered rare, with 17 incidents reported in the UK between 1922 and 2011, including a large outbreak in 1989 connected to hazelnut yoghurt and an ...

  8. 2024 Russian botulism outbreak - Wikipedia

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    Kukhnya Na Rayone, a Russian food delivery service based in Moscow, had one two brands of recalled salads on their menu, which contained canned beans. Shortly after early cases were announced, Kukhnya Na Rayone posted an online statement stating that it would recall the salad and inspect other food options they hosted on their menu to avoid further botulism poisoning cases.

  9. Food safety - Wikipedia

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    Food safety (or food hygiene) is used as a scientific method/discipline describing handling, preparation, and storage of food in ways that prevent foodborne illness.The occurrence of two or more cases of a similar illness resulting from the ingestion of a common food is known as a food-borne disease outbreak. [1]