Poisoned

The True Story of the Deadly E. Coli Outbreak That Changed the Way Americans Eat

By: Jeff Benedict

Narrated by: Jackie Sanders

NOW A NETFLIX DOCUMENTARY

From Jeff Benedict, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Tiger Woods and The Dynasty, Poisoned chronicles the events surrounding the worst food-poisoning epidemic in US history: the deadly Jack in the Box E. coli infections 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 was E. coli O157: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.

In Poisoned, award-winning investigative journalist and #1 New York Times bestselling 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 drama—the families whose children were infected, the Jack in the Box executives forced to answer for the tragedy, the physicians and scientists who identified E. coli as the culprit, and the legal teams on both sides of the historic lawsuits that ensued. Fast Food Nation meets A Civil Action in this riveting account of how we learned the hard way to truly watch what we eat.

I really enjoyed how well the story is told

I really love how well the story describes what happened in a succinct manner that makes sense to an outsider. I enjoy how they did not blame everyone and yet had really clear information. As a medical professional I appreciate how they got a good number of details correct. Beautiful book. highly recommend.

Must read

Every non food safety person in food industry MUST read this and be a job requirement.

A Must Read for all Food Safety professionals

Well told story. Passionate and gripping. A tale of food born illness everyone should be aware of.