BOTULISM

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During recent years we have been recognizing outbreaks of food poisoning caused by the ingestion of canned vegetables and fruits, in which the symptoms of the victims were those of botulinus intoxication. In every case that has come to my knowledge, home-canned products have been the cause. Not only have human beings been poisoned, but domestic fowl and animals have also been affected after eating home-canned food. In many cases there has been coincident intoxication of human beings and domestic fowl or animals, the fowl or animals having been fed remnants of the food which had caused the poisoning of the human beings (Table 1); but in other instances the poisoning of the domestic fowls or animals occurred independently of poisoning of human beings, because they were fed spoiled home-canned vegetables which had been recognized as spoiled and unfit for human consumption (Table 2). The majority of the recognized outbreaks

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