Internal Reference Number: FOI_8595
Date Request Received: 16/04/2025 00:00:00
Date Request Replied To: 07/05/2025 00:00:00
This response was sent via: By Email
Request Summary: Food Poisoning due to Wild Food
Request Category: Private Individuals
| Question Number 1: I would like to submit a request for information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA) regarding cases of food poisoning due to incorrect identification or inappropriate preparation of wild food. Please provide the relevant information for the period between 1 April 2020 and the most recent date for which data is available. We would define 鈥榳ild or foraged鈥� foods to be either: Wild, naturally growing food which was picked and consumed by an individual Wild, naturally growing food which was consumed by an individual, but was served in a restaurant environment, having been picked in the wild within the UK. If you need to carry out a key terms search to locate these records, please include the terms 鈥渇oraged鈥�, 鈥渇oraging鈥�, 鈥渨ild food鈥�, 鈥渇orager鈥�, 鈥渨ild ingredients鈥�. If you would document these cases in another way, please include these results as per the spirit of my request. Please could you provide the following: A yearly breakdown of the number of cases of food poisoning due to incorrect identification or inappropriate preparation of wild food. | |
| Answer To Question 1: Please see our response in the Excel spreadsheet attached. Please note that we are unable to reveal true numbers that are less than 6 due to Information Governance policy on protecting patient confidentiality. We are also unable to provide many details due to the fact this could also identify individual patients. To accompany this answer to question 1 please also see the documents listed below:  12923 - FOI_8595 - Food Poisoning due to Wild Food.xlsx | |
| Question Number 2: The type of wild food that caused the food poisoning (for example: fungi, plant, berries, etc鈥�). Please include the specific species if known. | |
| Answer To Question 2: As per Q1 | |
| Question Number 3: The symptoms experienced by the patient and the recovery time (for example: overnight stay or discharged within a couple hours) | |
| Answer To Question 3: As per Q1 | |
| Question Number 4: The location where this food was picked. | |
| Answer To Question 4: As per Q1 | |
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