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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.
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Poisoned
The True Story of the Deadly E. Coli Outbreak That Changed the Way Americans Eat
- 336 pages
- English
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eBook - ePub
Poisoned
The True Story of the Deadly E. Coli Outbreak That Changed the Way Americans Eat
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Author’s Note
- Cast of Characters
- A Note to Readers
- Chapter 1: Silent Night
- Chapter 2: Chomping at the Bit
- Chapter 3: Something Bad
- Chapter 4: Proof Positive
- Chapter 5: We’ve Got an Issue
- Chapter 6: Where Did Your Child Eat?
- Chapter 7: Flying Blind
- Chapter 8: An Awful Surprise
- Chapter 9: Expired
- Chapter 10: It Pays to Be Nice
- Chapter 11: Tell Me about E. ‘Coli’
- Chapter 12: Testimony
- Chapter 13: Expert Witnesses
- Chapter 14: No Miracles or Tragedies
- Chapter 15: The Awakening
- Chapter 16: Strings Attached
- Chapter 17: Nobody Blames You
- Chapter 18: A Shitload of Money
- Chapter 19: Pickpocket
- Chapter 20: Gearing Up
- Chapter 21: The Devil You Know
- Chapter 22: Four-Seasons Justice
- Chapter 23: Mirror, Mirror on the Wall
- Chapter 24: A Total Long Shot
- Chapter 25: I Don’t Mean to Be Impolite
- Chapter 26: In Your Face
- Chapter 27: Baby Steps
- Chapter 28: Just an Associate
- Chapter 29: It’s Personal
- Chapter 30: Lucky
- Chapter 31: Fiduciary Matters
- Chapter 32: You Have to Trust Me
- Chapter 33: Food-Safety Advocates
- Chapter 34: Breaking Up Is Hard to Do
- Chapter 35: Contempt
- Chapter 36: Wizards of Oz
- Chapter 37: The New Normal
- Chapter 38: The Reckoning
- Chapter 39: The Suggestion Box
- Chapter 40: Bingo
- Chapter 41: Turning Point
- Chapter 42: The Deposition
- Chapter 43: What You Need
- Chapter 44: Unheard-Of
- Chapter 45: Show Some Brass
- Chapter 46: Focused and Frightened
- Chapter 47: The Magnetic Moment
- Chapter 48: Enough Money to Go Around
- Chapter 49: It’s in Juice, Too
- Epilogue
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- Source Notes
- Index
- Copyright
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