food poisoning

Example Sentences

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Menus are hammered out course by course, with ingredients screened to avoid poisoning—not just by would-be assassins but also regular old food poisoning.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 27, 2026

Symptoms may resemble food poisoning or, in rare cases, a condition known as anisakiasis.

From Science Daily • Apr. 1, 2026

The program has a target of ultimately feeding 83 million people, but it has come under the spotlight after thousands of recipients contracted food poisoning.

From Barron's • Mar. 31, 2026

His employee, Sawyer, had called in sick with food poisoning the night before.

From Slate • Mar. 25, 2026

After each violent attack, I started to fear that maybe it wasn’t food poisoning, but rather that something far more insidious was responsible for the gut-wrenching torture taking place in my body.

From "Proud" by Ibtihaj Muhammad