As a personal note, the sickest I have ever been in my life was from food poisoning. The details are horrific, but imagine 3 days of violent diarrhea while at the same time throwing up. I couldn't even hold down water. My arms looked like, its hard to explain... the skin was draped over them. You could see every sinue of the musculature like I was a body builder, except I was a fat 30 year old. I went to the hospital and took 4 liters of saline.
All I did to earn that punishment was eat a few slices of pizza that had been left out too long.
If you please, the saga of the "pink sauce", which is the exemplar of why food safety has to be regulated: