Talk:Foodborne illness

message: The article states "Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease, transmitted usually by eating beef from animals with bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE, mad cow disease)"
This is just plain wrong.  Read the wikipedia article on CJD, then provide a reference for this statement.
82.152.155.58 (talk) 20:56, 19 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree and I deleted the entry. If someone disagrees please revert and provide reference. Tolle (talk) 15:49, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  CJD / BSE 

message: To my humble knowledge, Listeria does not itself cause illness, but rather its waste product does. I understand this is a pretty typical way for bacteria to cause illness, but in the case of Listeria it's waste causes the illness by getting into the food, not by being present in the body after infection by Listeria. The waste also does not break down in the presence of acids or heat, making normal tidy methods useless. 88.155.171.247 13:13, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Listeria

message: The article states: "There remain questions, however, over the nature of any agency funded by a government which has not an insignificant say in staffing."  What precisely does this mean?  It seems to me to be a thinly disguised political attack (and therefore POV statement) over the independence of the agency, but I could be misinterpreting it. JulesH 20:49, 5 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Food Standards Agency (UK politics) 

message: > There are every year about 76 million foodborne illnesses in the United States (26,000 cases for 100,000 inhabitants)
This sounds bogus. Does anybody seriously think 1 in 4 yankee have a shitting attack due to food poisoning every year? Impossible, that would be too bad even for third world countries! Plus you must consider HACCP food safety was invented in the USA forty years ago! Is Wikipedia hosting doctored propaganda numbers?
:Actually, when you think about it, foodborne illness on that scale is relatively possible, but keep in mind that foodborne illness not only covers the large stuff like hepatitis and botulism, it also covers smaller things, like the attacks you referred to above.  HACCP is a good start, but it doesn't take into consideration each and every small thing that can happen in the industry like physical contamination, biological contamination, cross-contamination, temperature abuse, so on and so forth.  In general, you could get foodborne illness from your own kitchen, unless you follow HACCP on every single grocery item that you receive, and I highly doubt anyone, even professionals in the industry, does that.  CQJ 17:24, 21 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: In retrospect, perhaps the statistic needs a source quotation and clarification on those lines. CQJ 02:09, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

text: That is insanely ridiculous. 1 in 4 people every year in the US gets food poisoning? If three people in a town get food poisoning the CDC shows up and starts shutting down restaurants and grocery stores until they figure out the source. I'm not speaking of serious cases either, but of ones where the person went to a family doctor, which people do for colds in the US. 88.155.171.247 13:08, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The Center for Disease Control says so themselves. Did you even read the article, and understand what foodborne illness is? From their website: "An estimated 76 million cases of foodborne disease occur each year in the United States. The great majority of these cases are mild and cause symptoms for only a day or two.  Some cases are more serious, and CDC estimates that there are 325,000 hospitalizations and 5,000 deaths related to foodborne diseases each year."  Since when does every American go to the doctor if they have an upset stomach for a day? Ridiculous assertions here. Peoplesunionpro 17:52, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Doctored statistics? 

message: Is gasterenteritis anything to do with food poisoning? Does it need a seperate article of its own or the search for it re-directed to this one - Foodborne illness? TurboForce 00:43, 26 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Gasterenteritis 

message: Food poisoning should be merged into this article.   The merge proposal is being discussed on the food poisioning talk page.  I have corrected the merge tag. Rlsheehan (talk) 20:50, 29 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed merge 

message: All of your food borne illness pages (i.e salmonella, bottulism, shingles, etc.) say that they belong to the Kingdom 'Bacteria.' In the Kingdom of living things there is no Kingdom 'Bacteria.' The 6 Kingdoms are Anamalia, Plantae, Fungi, Protista, 'Eubacteria,' and 'Archaebacteria.' Please fix this. Thank you.
174.116.206.90 (talk) 22:07, 6 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  food borne illness 

message: I propose an external link to Food Poison Journal , associated with Marler Clark. -- Wavelength (talk) 18:52, 10 May 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Since this is a blog run by a law firm that does foodborne illness cases, I would be opposed to it being added as an external link. I think the same information is available from media sources , CDC, etc. who have no financial interest in the topic. Look through WP:EL and see if you can find a rationale that would allow this link, but I think it's just too commercial. I think it would be a little like shyster lawyers being listed as ELs in the Traffic collision article (OK, not quite that bad, but to give you an idea of my objections). Bob98133 (talk) 20:29, 10 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Food Poison Journal 

message: The Prevention section should be moved to the Food Safety article with a pointer in this article explaining that proper observance of food safety principles will (theoretically) prevent all cases of foodborne illness.  Would this be a true statement? Microbiojen (talk) 17:35, 8 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Prevention of Foodborne Illness = out-of-scope? 

message: I don`t know if anyone took the time to read that article but it is trash and was obviously not produced by a reliable source. Looks like it was translated from another language with google translate..
Here are just a few things I found out of place:
"If you break out inside a rash"
"The most common signs or symptoms of foods poisoning signs"
"The simplest way to stop meals poisoning is always to wash all your meals thoroughly"  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.59.248.91 (talk) 01:15, 26 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  See also link: How To Treat Food Poisoning at Home November 6, 2010 

message: The one showing all the problems in yellow text. Is it a mockup for demonstration purposes or a real picture? 74.128.56.194 (talk) 05:05, 6 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Refrigerator Picture 

message: In the current version of the article I don't think there is discussion of symptoms, especially nausea and vomiting.  Is it known what mechanism causes the symptoms?  Recently I had bad stomach pain + nausea, but no diarrea (or gas).  Can I infer anything about what agent attacked me?  It'd be great if this article could discuss symptoms.  Thank you.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by HaroldHelson (talk • contribs) 18:33, 3 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Please discuss symptoms 

message: Most of this article doesn't link to its references plus there is at least one place where, rather than adding the reference link, the reference is inserted in the body of text in parenthesis -- just the title of the source, no publication data.  I agree that it needs rewriting. Risssa (talk) 02:05, 24 April 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Citations needed 

message: I'm hesitant to use the following source from a university lecture: NONINFLAMMATORY GASTROENTERITIS - FOOD POISONING. However, it has some good information which I'm not seeing in the articles I'm looking at. II | (t - c) 02:39, 5 May 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Freely-accessible sources? 

message: I moved the following section to here, because the point seems to be that pathogens behind foodborne illness may be spread by other means of transmission as well. For reinsertion, I think it needs to be more balanced with those other means and not only mention direct contact. Mikael Häggström (talk) 01:01, 28 November 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Being able to be transmitted by other means 

message: I just edited the ptomaine section. I ended up putting a help request at Talk:Vibrio with part of it relating to that section. Sorry that this is so short and the Vibrio post is so long. TIA, 
--Geekdiva (talk) 01:19, 15 December 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Help request at [[Talk:Vibrio]] related to Foodborne illness, "Ptomaine poisoning" section 

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message: I just recently vomited last night from drinking a can of Sprite for dinner.
Here are some important detail I'd like to point out in my unpleasant experience.
* My stomach had a delayed reaction to the spoiled Sprite and it took about an hour before I started having symptoms of nausea and frequent swallowing from increased salivation.
* The canned Sprite was practically untouched from last year.
* The canned Sprite was kept out at room temperature for too long.
* The canned Sprite had no carbonation whatsoever upon opening.
* The canned Sprite is two months away from reaching its Expiration Date.
* The canned Sprite was unaffected by refrigeration which may have been the reason why it didn't start reacting adversely upon entering my stomach.
--Arima (talk) 03:06, 3 August 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Spoiled Soda 

message: "ptomaine" for food poisoning is indeed less common than it used to be, but i don't think one can say "obsolete" yet.  a certain %age of ppl -- seniors, mainly -- are still using it as their default term.  "i got ptomaine at that buffet last week" etc.  may be medically inaccurate, but the usage persists.
unlike, say, "consumption", a term which actually HAS gone obsolete (AFAIK). 209.172.23.222 (talk) 07:09, 25 January 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  obsolete? 

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