- Source: List of foodborne illness outbreaks by death toll
This is a list of foodborne illness outbreaks by death toll, caused by infectious disease, heavy metals, chemical contamination, or from natural toxins, such as those found in poisonous mushrooms.
Before modern microbiology, foodbourne illness was not understood, and, from the mid 1800s to early-mid 1900s, was perceived as ptomaine poisoning, caused by a fundamental flaw in understanding how it worked. While the medical establishment ditched ptomaine theory by the 1930s, it remained in the public consciousness until the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Outside of botulism (which has been well known since the early 1900s and killed often at the time), many other foodbourne illnesses such as salmonellosis were not monitored closely or kept careful track of until at least the late 1970s, with overall monitoring only fully taking off after the 1992–1993 Jack in the Box E. coli outbreak.
List by agent
= By chemical contamination
=See also
List of epidemics
List of food contamination incidents
References
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- List of foodborne illness outbreaks by death toll
- List of foodborne illness outbreaks
- List of foodborne illness outbreaks in the United States
- Lists of death tolls
- Daft
- List of food contamination incidents
- Adulterated food in the United States
- Food Safety News
- 2011 United States listeriosis outbreak
- List of human-made mass poisoning incidents
