Contact: Stephen White, Partner and Milton Latta, Senior Associate; Carter Newell (Queensland, Australia)
According to the Food Safety Information Council, there are an estimated 5.4 million cases of food borne illness in Australia each year, and that food poisoning results, on average, in 120 deaths, 1.2 million visits to doctors, 300,000 prescriptions for antibiotics, and 2.1 million days of lost work each year.1 These figures are likely to increase with the rising number of vulnerable Australians who are at the most risk from food poisoning, being the young and the elderly.
This, in turn, is likely to lead to increasing numbers of food poisoning cases.
The purpose of this newsletter is to examine the key issues in food poisoning cases and provide details of some useful resources when dealing with such cases.
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