Think I got food poisining

CO19 · 03-04-2011 2:22am #1

I think I got food poisining from the local chipper tonight and I'm wondering can anyone here point me in the right direction as to going about to prove this ? Thanks for any help

Reloc8 · 03-04-2011 2:51am

Eh...there's usually no 'i think' about food poisoning.

Are you vomitting ?

Are both ends going ?

Did you by any chance have a few drinks ?

Why was it not the few drinks, or the glass you consumed them from, that made you sick as opposed to the garlic chip curry burger (bleugh) you just ate ? (or even anything else you ate or did within the last week)

You can't prove it was the chipper.

(ps I still wouldn't go back to that chipper)

Good night.

Mr. Incognito · 03-04-2011 3:19am

Food poisoning takes 24 hours so you could not have gotten it from the chipper tonight.

You more likely hurled after drink.

Sleep it off.

MyKeyG · 03-04-2011 3:26am

CO19 wrote: »

I think I got food poisining from the local chipper tonight and I'm wondering can anyone here point me in the right direction as to going about to prove this ? Thanks for any help

No there's no way to prove the cause of food poisoning unless you have some of the meat left over and throwing around unprovable accusations might get you a nice little legal letter yourself.

Reloc8 · 03-04-2011 10:58am

Mr. Incognito wrote: »

Food poisoning takes 24 hours so you could not have gotten it from the chipper tonight.

You more likely hurled after drink.

Sleep it off.

Salmonella, botulism and staph. food poisoning can all come on within 4 hours or less.

CO19 · 03-04-2011 11:43am

Thanks for the replies,This was the only thing i had eaten since breakfast and no i wasnt drinking at all so thats well entruely ruled out,the vomiting came on about 4-5 hours after I had the chicken box and continued all night so i cant see how it's anything else and yes I still have the other piece of chicken from it too but as I said I havent a clue where to go from here about it

gustafo · 03-04-2011 11:48am

if your really that bad go to a hospital they will be able to do tests there but proving that you got it from the chipper won't be easy.

MagicSean · 03-04-2011 12:02pm

You could contact these folks

http://www.fsai.ie/home.html

drkpower · 03-04-2011 12:09pm

Vomiting (and all of the other typical signs of 'food poisoning') can and are frequently caused by airborne pathogens, rather than from anything that was eaten.

The reality is that, as someone said, you would need to have a sample of the meat you ate (or at least meat sold by the chipper that night) or evidence from a substantial number of other people similarly affected that night, if you were to have any chance of success.

CO19 · 03-04-2011 1:12pm

drkpower wrote: »

Vomiting (and all of the other typical signs of 'food poisoning') can and are frequently caused by airborne pathogens, rather than from anything that was eaten.

The reality is that, as someone said, you would need to have a sample of the meat you ate (or at least meat sold by the chipper that night) or evidence from a substantial number of other people similarly affected that night, if you were to have any chance of success.

Thanks guys

I still have the other piece of chicken and I'm goin to send it off to be tested and see what comes of it.By the sounds of it it sounds like chippers etc can poisin you all they want as its hard to prove it was them

ch252 · 03-04-2011 10:07pm

A sample must be kept for all meat cooked so get onto it NOW if you are going to. The HSA (I assume?) will check the sample and see if that has the relevant bacteria on it. I'm no expert but I am positive they must keep a sample for this very reason.

Sala · 04-04-2011 6:18pm

Environmental Health deal with food complaints

http://www.hse.ie/eng/services/Find_a_Service/Environmental_Health/Food_Poisoning_Complaints.html

siobhan.murphy · 04-04-2011 6:21pm

a stool sample is needed,
and food poisioning can happen as soon as 20 mins after the food has been consumed

Jev/N · 04-04-2011 10:18pm

Could be something you touched or held etc. and it doesn't have to be food ingested

bob_lob_law · 04-04-2011 10:42pm

Just chalk it down it experience and possibly get a life while you're at it.

Rochester · 04-04-2011 10:44pm

No matter where you got or how you got it, hope you are OK now.

Kintarō Hattori · 05-04-2011 3:14pm

Did you contact any of the organisations mentioned OP? Did anyone come to collect the chicken from you?

Johnny Utah · 05-04-2011 5:11pm

CO19 wrote: »

I think I got food poisining from the local chipper tonight and I'm wondering can anyone here point me in the right direction as to going about to prove this ? Thanks for any help

The only advice I can give you (and this isn't legal advice) is to put a few rolls of Andrex aloe vera in the fridge. You'll be right as rain in a few days!

Johnny Utah · 05-04-2011 5:12pm

Oh, and lay off the Guinness in the interim too!

CO19 · 05-04-2011 5:51pm

Kintarō Hattori wrote: »

Did you contact any of the organisations mentioned OP? Did anyone come to collect the chicken from you?

Yep the environmental health officer has it now and is investigating it

Think I got food poisining

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