This is a list of foodborne illness

Foodborne illness

Foodborne illness is any illness resulting from the consumption of contaminated food, pathogenic bacteria, viruses, or parasites that contaminate food, as well as chemical or natural toxins such as poisonous mushrooms.-Causes:Foodborne illness usually arises from improper handling, preparation, or...

 outbreaks. A foodborne illness may be from an infectious disease

Infectious disease

Infectious diseases, also known as communicable diseases, contagious diseases or transmissible diseases comprise clinically evident illness resulting from the infection, presence and growth of pathogenic biological agents in an individual host organism...

 or from heavy metals

Heavy metals

A heavy metal is a member of a loosely-defined subset of elements that exhibit metallic properties. It mainly includes the transition metals, some metalloids, lanthanides, and actinides. Many different definitions have been proposed—some based on density, some on atomic number or atomic weight,...

 or from chemical contamination or from natural toxins such as those found in poisonous mushrooms.

Japan

• Minamata disease
  Minamata disease
  ', sometimes referred to as , is a neurological syndrome caused by severe mercury poisoning. Symptoms include ataxia, numbness in the hands and feet, general muscle weakness, narrowing of the field of vision and damage to hearing and speech. In extreme cases, insanity, paralysis, coma, and death...
  
  
• Niigata Minamata disease
  Niigata Minamata disease
  ' is a neurological syndrome caused by severe mercury poisoning. Identical in symptoms to the original outbreak of Minamata disease in Kumamoto Prefecture, the second outbreak in Niigata Prefecture was confirmed with the same name in 1965...
  
  
• 1996 Japan E.coli O157:H7 http://www.pyroenergen.com/articles08/escherichia-coli-o157h7.htm

United Kingdom

• 2005 Outbreak of E.coli O157 in South Wales
• 1996 Outbreak of E.coli O157 in Lanarkshire, Scotland (http://www.fao.org/docrep/MEETING/004/X6925E.HTM)

United States

In 1999 an estimated 5,000 deaths, 325,000 hospitalizations and 76 million illnesses were caused by foodborne illnesses within the US. Illness outbreaks lead to food recalls.

See also

• 1984 Rajneeshee bioterror attack
  1984 Rajneeshee bioterror attack
  The 1984 Rajneeshee bioterror attack was the food poisoning of 751 individuals in The Dalles, Oregon, United States, through the deliberate contamination of salad bars at ten local restaurants with salmonella...
  
  
• Eosinophilia-myalgia syndrome
  Eosinophilia-myalgia syndrome
  Eosinophilia–myalgia syndrome is an incurable and sometimes fatal flu-like neurological condition that is believed to have been caused by ingestion of poorly produced L-tryptophan supplements...
  
  
• List of food contamination incidents
• List of medicine contamination incidents