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The day I got the worst food poisoning of my life is burned into my brain. I’ll spare you the traumatising details but it hit me at the worst possible time: the night before I had to check out of a hotel, travel to the airport and catch a rather long flight back home. I look back now and laugh but at the time I was in a world of pain I wouldn’t want inflicted on my worst enemy. That’s why I could
certainly relate to and empathise with this first-person account by journalist Lynton Grace.
He has written about his own food poisoning saga after eating a chicken salad he snapped up for $8.49 as part of an end-of-the-day special. He blames himself entirely for the “rookie error” of not keeping it refrigerated properly and then waiting a whole day before he tucked in. “The body horrors that ensued are like something from a movie you’re too scared to watch. It was the worst thing I’ve ever experienced outside a hospital, and I live with leukaemia,” he writes.
 To accompany the piece, acting national deputy health editor Olivia Shying
investigated food safety breaches at different eateries, restaurants and shops across Australia. You can view the lists of businesses that have been fined in these special reports focusing on Victoria and
NSW. Olivia has also listed some of the Queensland hotspots
for food safety infringements. It comes as she details how salmonellosis infections - caused by people being exposed to the salmonella bacteria - are rising in Australia. More than 30 people have died from the common form of food poisoning in just four years. However there is no suggestion the breaches at any of the shops named led to anyone getting sick.
Meanwhile, if you are worried about short-sightedness and rely on reading glasses then you should take a glimpse at this in-depth report
by Ruby Kraner-Tucci. She spoke to almost 40 ophthalmologists about the biggest issues they were noticing with eye health in Australia. Many believed this daily habit was contributing to kids and young adults being diagnosed with short-sightedness at earlier ages than previous generations. See their
top tips on how we can look after our eyes here. Until next week.
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