Poisoned: the True Story of Deadly E. Coli Outbreak That Changed Way Americans Eat in Bloomington, MN

NOW A NETFLIX DOCUMENTARY
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
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
, award-winning investigative journalist and #1
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
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.