History Main / TheFoodPoisoningIncident

* In ''{{Series/Emergency}}'', a guy got himself and his neighbors sick from undercooked bear meat in one episode, and another, "Botulism", is a sort of restaurant outbreak.

* A rather [[PlayedForDrama upsetting example]] occurs in this ''Website/GoAnimate'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUbg7gzmHPU video,]] WesternAnimation/{{Caillou}} is tricked into eating some green strawberries, needless to say, he turns out to be allergic to the green strawberries and he [[TearJerker/GoAnimate ends up dying as a result of eating them.]]

* In ''Anime/{{Patlabor}}'' this is revealed to be the cause of the [[DwindlingParty mysterious disappearance]] of several members of the team. The mystery starts when some workers go to a ramen stand to bring some takeout to the office, but never come back. A search party goes looking for them but also fails to reappear. This is repeated until the building is empty. Turns out each group decides to eat something at the stand before coming back and immediately becomes ill until the whole team and background characters are writhing on the floor behind the stand in agony. It is later reavealed that an employee of the ramen shop has been feeding stray dogs the leftover ramen and then serving the customers [[{{Squick}} in those same bowls]] [[NauseaFuel without washing them.]]

* In the ''Series/{{Thunderbirds'}}'' episode "[[Recap/ThunderbirdsS2E2PathOfDestruction Path of Destruction]]", the plots get kicked off because the crewmen of a forest clearing vehicle eat bad food while in South America... leading to the vehicle going off course through a village and threatening a dam.

* ''Series/IsItLegal'': In “Infatuation”, Darren tries to sue Mr.Bappy after allegedly receiving food poisoning from one of their products. It is eventually revealed that he was actually poisoned by eating out of date (by a year) chicken nuggets.

* Series/Annika2021'': In episode 2x5, Michael attempts to keep investigating the BodyOfTheWeek despite suffering food poisoning brought one by eating his eldest daughter's home economics project.

* A video on [=YouTube=], "Real Life ComicStrip/{{Popeye}}, presents the Brodax Popeye, the Fleischer Olive and the Hanna-Barbera Bluto in what starts as a standard conflict over Olive. Popeye eats his spinach then suddenly collapses and doubles over clutching his stomach and breaking wind. The spinach he ate was tainted ("I buys in bulk!").

* ''Website/SCPFoundation:'' [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-666-and-a-half-j SCP-666½-J]] is an [[LethalChef apocalyptically bad]] crab-stuffed mushroom entreé whose discovery as an SCP was one of these, and still unleashes multiple, serial and localized apocalypses on the digestive system of anyone that eats them. The victims went through so much pain that the cooking staff had to be put into protective custody so the unfortunate people who ate it wouldn't try to murder them.

* ''WebVideo/{{Chubbyemu}}'' has several educational videos about real-life incidents of accidental poisoning, often the result of people eating things that they shouldn't have or from consuming something in unsafe amounts, going into detail about how different toxins affect the body.

* ''WebVideo/Chubbyemu'' has several educational videos about real-life incidents of accidental poisoning, often the result of people eating things that they shouldn't have or from consuming something in unsafe amounts, going into detail about how different toxins affect the body.

* Website/YouTube channel ''[[https://www.youtube.com/@chubbyemu Chubbyemu]]'' has several educational videos about real-life incidents of accidental poisoning, often the result of people eating things that they shouldn't have or from consuming something in unsafe amounts, going into detail about how different toxins affect the body.

* ''Film/StarTrekIV'': A conversation between Scotty and Kirk at the beginning of the film implies this.

** In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12930880/1/Lucy-s-Secret Lucy's Secret,]]'' Lucy tells a lie that Haiku and her sister had food poisoning and threw up on the carpet.

* ''Literature/TheDevilIsAPartTimer'': After being given a large box of packaged noodles, Ashiya insist that they must all be eaten before he'll buy any more food even though the box has lasted them a long enough time that they're obviously expired. This causes him to wind up with a debilitating case of food poisoning, and, true to his penny-pinching nature, he refuses to go see a doctor or even take some over-the-counter stomache medication and instead spends the day stuck in the bathroom.

* ''Podcast/WellTheresYourProblem'' did an episode on the 1975 [[|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan_Air_Lines_food_poisoning_incident Japan Airlines food poisoning incident]], where 197 passengers were (non-fatally) poisoned by a ''Staphylococcus aureus'' outbreak from food served during the last leg of the journey. Luckily for all involved, neither of the pilots were affected, but the plane had to be opened by a hazmat team and several of the passengers evacuated on stretchers. While witness statements were (understandably) rare, the hosts took several asides to talk about the likely effects of having nearly two hundred people in an enclosed space suffering from evacuations on both ends for almost an hour, while using Creator/HieronymusBosch paintings as visual aides.

* ''Podcast/WellTheresYourProblem'' did an episode on the 1975 [[Japan_Air_Lines_food_poisoning_incident Japan Airlines food poisoning incident]], where 197 passengers were (non-fatally) poisoned by a ''Staphylococcus aureus'' outbreak from food served during the last leg of the journey. Luckily for all involved, neither of the pilots were affected, but the plane had to be opened by a hazmat team and several of the passengers evacuated on stretchers. While witness statements were (understandably) rare, the hosts took several asides to talk about the likely effects of having nearly two hundred people in an enclosed space suffering from evacuations on both ends for almost an hour, while using Creator/HieronymusBosch paintings as visual aides.

* In ''Comicbook/{{Bone}}'', what got the Bone Cousins chased out of Boneville was that at Phoney's disastrous campaign picnic, he served prune tarts he got from a discount prune dealer. After the giant Phoney-baloon went amok, the "Bad prunes kicked in". As Smiley later states, they gave the entire town a case of the "Fast Sallies", though Fone Bone implies that this was just TheLastStraw after many of Phoney's NoodleIncidents.

** "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS4E13SelmasChoice Selma's Choice]]" combines with WayPastTheExpirationDate when Homer brought six-feet of a leftover party sub-sandwich home and continued eating it for weeks afterward, well after it had gone bad.