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Food poisoning - Personal Injury Compensation Claims with clickandclaim's Personal Injury Solicitors
Making a personal injury compensation claim for food poisoning, be it from inadequate cooking in a restaurant or poor hygiene, is simple and straight forward with clickandclaim.
Food poisoning can cause severe illness, leading to time off work which leads to loss of earnings. If you have suffered food poisoning at the fault of another party then clickandclaim’s personal injury solicitors can advise you on making a personal injury claim.
Symptoms
Typical symptoms of food poisoning include, vomiting, nausea, stomach cramps and diarrhoea which comes on suddenly and unpredicted. Often fever and chills can be experienced, depending on the cause of your food poisoning. Food poisoning is common and can sometimes be fatal.
Causes
The causes of food poisoning are categorised in two divisions:
1) Infective Agents
2) Toxic Agents
- Infective Agents
These include viruses, bacteria and parasites.
- Toxic Agents
These cover such things as inadequately cooked food, pesticides in fruit and vegetables or poisonous mushrooms.
Food usually becomes contaminated by improper storage, i.e meat left uncovered on a work surface, or from handlers not washing their hands before handling the food. Where this is the case then you could be entitle to compensation for your injury.
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