September 28, 2012

Question 1

What percentage of North Americans will experience food poisioning each year

Answer 1

25-30%

Question 2

How many American’s get food poisoning on a daily basis?

Answer 2

200,000

Question 3

What is mycology?

Answer 3

Science of mushrooms

Question 4

What is ergot?

Answer 4

Toxic condition that describes fungus affects certain grains, particularly rye.

Question 5

Describe St. Anthony’s Fire aka ergot?

Answer 5

It is a disease caused by focus that grows on rye. It caused people to go crazy for no reason and to have random acts of violence, cramps and miscarriages. It contains LSD, which leads to hallucination and death

Question 6

What is creutzfeldt-jakov disease (mad cow diseas)?

Answer 6

food bourne disease that occurs in cattle (BSE) bovine spongeaform esepalothopy; happends when animals feed off other animals

Question 7

Describe celiac

Answer 7

Gluten-intolerance
William Dicke discovered the connection between diet and celiac. He made the connection WW2 because the dutch people were getting sick after the war so it had to do with what they ate; wheat

Question 8

What is fugu?

Answer 8

Puffer fish aka blow fish, served in Japan and needs to be prepared properly or it could kill you. The chef has to carefully remove the toxic sac without rapturing it