Food Poisoning

UK sources of information and / or support

 Patient UK

Has information leaflets on Gastroenteritis in Children and Gastroenteritis in Adults - which are commonly due to food poisoning.

 Preventing food poisoning - Good hygiene at home

Information from the Food Standards Agency

 Food poisoning

Information about food poisoning and other food safety issues from the eating well website of the Food Standards Agency.

 Food poisoning

Information from NHS Choices - the government's patient information portal.

 Listeriosis

Information from NHS Choices - the government's patient information portal.

 Food hygiene

Information from BUPA.

Further sources / more detailed information

Some non-UK sites

The following list popular non-UK health information sites with content aimed at the general public. They are mainly from the US. They have not been checked to see if information about the above topic is included but these large sites are comprehensive.

• Non-UK disease / illness sites
• Non-UK self-help / support group sites

More detailed medical information

The following list online sources of more detailed medical information, mainly from the UK. These sites are mainly aimed at health professionals, but are of interest to all. They have not been checked to see if information about the above topic is included, but information about most medical topics can usually be found.

• PatientPlus - hundreds of medical reference articles provided by Patient UK.
• Evidence Based Medicine - such as from Clinical Evidence, The Cochrane Library, etc.
• Database of UK Clinical Guidelines - from NICE, SIGN, Clinical Knowledge Summaries, etc.
• Medline - abstracts available from thousands of journals.
• Sites listing free online medical textbooks and journals.
• Sites listing free medical images - pictures, atlases, anatomy, skin diseases, etc.