Poisoned: The True Story of the Deadly E. Coli Outbreak That Changed the Way Americans Eat by Jeff Benedict
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From Jeff Benedict, the #1New York Timesbestselling author ofTiger WoodsandThe Dynasty,Poisonedchronicles the events surrounding the worst food-poisoning epidemic in US history: the deadly Jack in the BoxE. coliinfections in 1993.
On December 24, 1992, six-year-old Lauren Rudolph was hospitalized with excruciating stomach pain. Less than a week later she was dead. Doctors were baffled: How could a healthy child become so sick so quickly? After a frenzied investigation, public-health officials announced that the cause wasE. coliO157:H7, and the source was hamburger meat served at a Jack in the Box restaurant. During this unprecedented crisis, four children died and over seven hundred others became gravely ill.
InPoisoned, award-winning investigative journalist and #1New York Timesbestselling author Jeff Benedict delivers a jarringly candid narrative of the fast-moving disaster, drawing on access to confidential documents and exclusive interviews with the real-life characters at the center of the dramathe families whose children were infected, the Jack in the Box executives forced to answer for the tragedy, the physicians and scientists who identifiedE. colias the culprit, and the legal teams on both sides of the historic lawsuits that ensued.Fast Food NationmeetsA Civil Actionin this riveting account of how we learned the hard way to truly watch what we eat.
From Jeff Benedict, the #1New York Timesbestselling author ofTiger WoodsandThe Dynasty,Poisonedchronicles the events surrounding the worst food-poisoning epidemic in US history: the deadly Jack in the BoxE. coliinfections in 1993.
On December 24, 1992, six-year-old Lauren Rudolph was hospitalized with excruciating stomach pain. Less than a week later she was dead. Doctors were baffled: How could a healthy child become so sick so quickly? After a frenzied investigation, public-health officials announced that the cause wasE. coliO157:H7, and the source was hamburger meat served at a Jack in the Box restaurant. During this unprecedented crisis, four children died and over seven hundred others became gravely ill.
InPoisoned, award-winning investigative journalist and #1New York Timesbestselling author Jeff Benedict delivers a jarringly candid narrative of the fast-moving disaster, drawing on access to confidential documents and exclusive interviews with the real-life characters at the center of the dramathe families whose children were infected, the Jack in the Box executives forced to answer for the tragedy, the physicians and scientists who identifiedE. colias the culprit, and the legal teams on both sides of the historic lawsuits that ensued.Fast Food NationmeetsA Civil Actionin this riveting account of how we learned the hard way to truly watch what we eat.