What’s on the Food Poisoning poster
A 7-row table: Cause · Onset · Typical source.
Educational reference. Seek medical advice for severe or persistent symptoms.
- Staph aureus — 1–6 h — Handled food left warm
- Bacillus cereus — 1–6 h — Reheated rice
- Salmonella — 12–72 h — Poultry, eggs
- Campylobacter — 2–5 days — Undercooked chicken
- E. coli — 3–4 days — Undercooked beef, produce
- Listeria — Days–weeks — Soft cheese, deli meats
- Norovirus — 12–48 h — Person to person, shellfish
Educational reference. Seek medical help for blood in stool, high fever, severe dehydration, or symptoms beyond a few days.
Questions about the Food Poisoning poster
- What’s on the Food Poisoning poster?
- A 7-row table: Cause · Onset · Typical source. Educational reference. Seek medical advice for severe or persistent symptoms. Staph aureus — 1–6 h — Handled food left warm; Bacillus cereus — 1–6 h — Reheated rice; Salmonella — 12–72 h — Poultry, eggs; Campylobacter — 2–5 days — Undercooked chicken; E. coli — 3–4 days — Undercooked beef, produce; Listeria — Days–weeks — Soft cheese, deli meats; Norovirus — 12–48 h — Person to person, shellfish. Educational reference. Seek medical help for blood in stool, high fever, severe dehydration, or symptoms beyond a few days.
- Who is the Food Poisoning poster for?
- Food Poisoning belongs to the Kitchen section rather than to a school year, because food is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning food safety can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.
- When should you use the Food Poisoning poster?
- Onset time is the best clue to the cause. Note when symptoms started. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Food Poisoning belongs on the wall where that food work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
- What other posters go with Food Poisoning?
- Barbecue Safety, Preserving Safely and Cleaning sit alongside Food Poisoning in the Kitchen section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.Barbecue SafetyPreserving SafelyCleaning
- Is the Food Poisoning poster free to download and print?
- Yes. Food Poisoning downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Kitchen section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
- What size does the Food Poisoning poster print at?
- Food Poisoning is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Food Poisoning loses nothing.Printing guide
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