Poisoned The True Story of the Deadly E. Coli Outbreak That Changed the Way Americans Eat
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. Fast Food Nation meets A Civil Action in this riveting account of how we learned the hard way to truly watch what we eat.