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Volume 19, Number 6—June 2013
CME ACTIVITY - Research

Foodborne Botulism in Canada, 1985–2005

Daniel Leclair, Joe Fung, Judith L. Isaac-Renton, Jean-Francois Proulx, Jennifer May-Hadford, Andrea Ellis, Edie Ashton, Sadjia Bekal, Jeffrey M. Farber, Burke Blanchfield, and John W. AustinComments to Author 
Author affiliations: Health Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada (D. Leclair, J.W. Austin, J.M. Farber, B. Blanchfield); British Columbia Provincial Health Services Authority, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada (J.L. Isaac-Renton, J. Fung); Nunavik Regional Board of Health and Social Services, Kuujjuaq, Quebec, Canada (J.-F. Proulx); Public Health Agency of Canada, Guelph, Ontario (J. May-Hadford); Laboratoire de santé publique du Québec, Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Quebec, Canada (S. Bekal); ProvLab, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada (E. Ashton); Canadian Food Inspection Agency, Ottawa (A. Ellis)

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Table 4

Foodborne botulism outbreaks, cases, and deaths, by food source and year, Canada, 1985–2005

Food source and year Implicated food source No. outbreaks No. cases No. deaths Toxin serotype
Commercial retail foods
1995 Pâté 1 2 0 B
2000
 Cooked boneless pork
 1
 1
 0
 A
Restaurant foods
1985 Chopped garlic in oil 1 37 0 B
1987 Bottled chanterelle mushrooms 1 11 0 A
2002
 Baked potato
 1
 1
 0
 A
Home-prepared foods
1985 Home-canned mushrooms 1 1 0 B
1988 Homemade sausages 1 1 0 E
1989 Bean soup 1 1 0 A
1991 Home-canned asparagus 1 3 1 A
1993 Homemade beef and vegetable soup 1 1 0 A
1995 Marinated and smoked fish 1 3 1 E
2000 Spaghetti sauce containing home-canned sausage 1 1 0 A
2001
 Fish
 1
 1
 0
 B
Native foods
1985–2005 Marine mammal products
Seal meat and fat 37 70 5 E
Walrus meat 3 9 0 E
Beluga meat and skin* 19 31 1 E
Meat and fat 3 3 0 E
1985–2001 Fish products
Salmon eggs 8 19 3 E
Fish and fish heads
 2
 2
 0
 E
Unknown food source*
1990–2005 Unknown 6 7 0 B, E

*Serotype was not confirmed for 2 outbreaks involving muktuk and for 1 outbreak with an unknown food source.

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