Most people don’t think twice about picking up groceries, but it does actually come with some risks, including food poisoning. While many people think of food poisoning coming from places like restaurants, grocery stores do their fair share of spreading food-borne contaminants. If someone can definitively trace a bout of food poisoning to food they bought at a grocery store, they may actually have a legal case.
An Illinois food poisoning attorney can review the evidence in your case and help you understand your options.
How Can a Grocery Store Cause Food Poisoning?
If a grocery store sells spoiled food, there’s a pretty clear connection between them and subsequent food poisoning. This spoilage can happen before the store receives it or while it sits in too-warm conditions at the store. Some foods, like vegetables, are contaminated from the start with things like E. coli in the manure used to fertilize them while growing.