Food Poisoning

Food Contamination and Poisoning You know when eating some kind of food, and it doesn’t taste right, look right or smell right? That means it could be contaminated with a dangerous substance that could harm the body. Food poisoning is the result of ingesting organisms or toxins in food. Food poisoning can affect one person, or it can occur as an outbreak among several people who all ate the same thing. Even though food poisoning is quite rare in North America, food poisoning affects 60 to 80 million people each year, and 6 to 8 million die from it each year. It is an ever-present threat that can be prevented 
with proper care and handling of food products. It mainly occurs at picnics, school cafeterias, or at big social events, like parties with food at them. These are all cases where food is contaminated by something, or it isn't prepared correctly. Most of the time, people get contaminated by under-cooked meats or expired dairy products. Bacteria cause most cases of food contamination or poisoning. Some bacteria, which contaminate food, include Staph Aureus, E. coli enteritis, salmonella, shigella, campy lobacter, cholera, botulism, Listeria, Yersinia, Salmonella, Clostridium perfringens, Campylobacter, Listeria monocytogenes, Vibrio parahaemolyticus, bacillus cereus, and Staphylococcus. Children and elderly ones have a much higher chance of getting deadly symptoms from having bacteria in food, just the same as a person in a foreign country is prone to more diseases than those who reside in the country. Symptoms of food poisoning may vary, some which include nausea and vomiting, abdominal cramps, diarrhea, fever, or head ache, other more serious ones include respiratory distress, kidney failure, bleeding disorders, arthritis, nervous system disorders or death. All these are caused from food poisoning, which leads to food borne illnesses, which are almost the same thing but are slightly different. According to a medical dictionary, foodborne