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Just because someone gets ill after eating at a restaurant doesn't mean that the restaurant food was the cause. There may be several causes including food the sickee prepared for himself/herself earlier in the day.

What confidence indicators are you presenting to the public so that a report can be flagged as possibly unreliable?

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Agreed, this is why we do not pronounce a single report as a truth.

We do not present confidence indicators. We do explain the details of foodborne illness on our site, but we do want to do better on this, we will continue to refine messaging to ensure our subscribers, or other people who find us, understand the strengths, and considerations in looking at our data.

I agree; I had a friend who would regularly drink cases of beer on the weekends and though he said he never got hangovers, oddly he often reported experiencing food poisoning and would attribute his malaise to wherever he ate last.

In one of P.G. Wodehouse's stories, a man explains his hangover as charcoal poisoning, from the powdered charcoal used to color inferior caviar. I had never heard of such an explanation outside his fiction before.

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