Food poisoning was an illness.
The Christmas Hotel's pie-and-peas supper nights had, according to Brenda, a risk of both food poisoning and slavery. (PROSE: Brenda's B&B [+]Paul Magrs, The Panda Book of Horror (Obverse Books, 2009).)
On 5 March 2005, Jimmy Stone pretended to have food poisoning to avoid attending a wedding in Henley with his wealthy girlfriend Abena, intending instead to rob her and leave. (PROSE: Rose [+]Russell T Davies, adapted from Rose (Russell T Davies), Target novelisations (Target Books, 2018).)
While imprisoned at HMP Whitcastle, Yvonne Hartman was sent a small sum of money which appeared to correlate to an instance of another prison inmate contracting food poisoning. (AUDIO: At Her Majesty's Pleasure [+]Error: Code 2 - no data stored in variables, cache or SMW.)
Vance Luhmere died of food poisoning, which Captain Scarlet concluded to have been caused by the Mysterons. (PROSE: We, the Mysterons, will cause a germ war throughout Earth! [+]Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons short stories (City Magazines, 1968).)