Food poisoning

Actually, I should call this ‘garbage poisoning’ because most of these toxicities are associated with the ingestion of garbage and the like.

Indeed, food poisoning seems much more common in recent times. I definitely see more cases with symptoms reminiscent of food poisoning nowadays in the clinic than, say, 20 years ago.

Dogs are notorious scavengers, even those that are supposedly well-fed and coming from good homes. The dogs are sometimes offered food that we consider unfit for human consumption. For example, we might have had a meatloaf for ages in the …..