Mary Ann
Food safety is very personal topic for me and for my family. Just before Labor Day 2006, my fit and active 80-year-old mom, Mary Ann, bought a bag of pre-washed, ready-to-serve spinach that she assumed was safe to eat, if not beneficial to her health. Unfortunately, the spinach was contaminated with E. coli O157:H7 — […]
Vincent
The first time that I ever had like, a foodborne illness, it was from bell pepper. A bad bell pepper. I graduated so hard. In 2013, I was 53 years old and living in Florida when I got ill from eating lettuce at the restaurant where I worked. Right away I knew that something wasn’t […]
Serena
In 1993, after living for years in the Portland area, I moved with my husband, John, to Lincoln City, Oregon. We were blessed to find 40 acres in the coastal mountains, fifteen miles from town. John worked for United Telephone, and I worked at a local restaurant. It was the perfect place for our three […]
Angela
Kidney failure, constant pain and nausea, extreme weakness, and weeks laid up in a hospital bed. Not the kind of life you’d normally describe for a typical, active 15-year-old girl looking forward to celebrating her Sweet 16th birthday, is it? But that’s exactly the kind of harrowing, hellish ordeal I went through back in high […]
Lucas
What made him sick? Was it still in my house? Was I still feeding it to my family? Was my daughter next? The fear and anxiety spilled over to all of us. Our 10 year old son, Lucas, is an active, healthy boy that typically eats well with very few food aversions. So, having very […]
Rustin
Being able to see that even your mom and dad are scared and don’t know what to do … it’s an experience I wouldn’t wish on anyone.
Barbara
This hospital visit was just the beginning of an ongoing battle with food poisoning that I am still fighting.
Emily
I remember sitting on the kitchen floor petting my dog when my mom played back the voicemail from, who we thought was my sister, the night before. It was actually the on-call doctor at the lab my blood was sent to urging us to get to the emergency room …
Rylee
The pain we felt as parents watching our daughter suffer day after day was nothing compared to what Rylee had to endure and will remember for the rest of her life.
Richard and Linda
I cannot express how traumatic this illness has been…
Lindsay
None of us ever imagined that the food we were eating might not be safe.
Lauren
Frustration and fear were the last emotions I ever expected to feel as I began my junior year of college.
