This is a list of foodborne illness outbreaks. A foodborne illness may be from an infectious disease, heavy metals, chemical contamination, or from natural toxins, such as those found in poisonous mushrooms.

• List of foodborne illness outbreaks by death toll

• 2008 Canada listeriosis outbreak

• 2008 Chinese milk scandal

• 2011 Escherichia coli O104:H4 outbreak

• Minamata disease
• Niigata Minamata disease
• 1996 Japan E. coli O157:H7^[1][2]

• 2024 Russian botulism outbreak

• 1981 Toxic oil syndrome

• 2005 outbreak of E.coli O157 in South Wales
• 1996 outbreak of E. coli O157 in Lanarkshire, Scotland^[3]
• Loch Maree Hotel botulism poisoning

In 1999, an estimated 5,000 deaths, 325,000 hospitalizations, and 76 million illnesses were caused by foodborne illnesses within the US.^[4] Illness outbreaks lead to food recalls.

• List of foodborne illness outbreaks by death toll
• 1984 Rajneeshee bioterror attack
• Eosinophilia–myalgia syndrome
• List of food contamination incidents
• List of medicine contamination incidents