Food Poisoning Questions & Answers
Straight answers to what people ask most. These hold wherever you were hurt — for the deadlines and rules that depend on your state, choose your state below.
How Do You Prove Which Food Made Me Sick?
This is the central question in every food poisoning case, and it is proven by building a trail rather than a single fact. The most powerful tool is timing: different pathogens have characteristic incubation periods, so the gap between eating and getting sick points to the likely meal or product. A stool test that confirms the exact bug sharpens that timeline.
Read the answer →Do I Need to Have Saved the Food?
No — and this is a common worry that stops people from coming forward. Saved food and packaging are helpful, especially for identifying a specific product and lot, but a food poisoning claim does not depend on them. Most people do not think to keep the food, and that alone does not end a claim.
Read the answer →How Much Does a Food Poisoning Lawyer Cost?
We handle food poisoning claims on a contingency basis for the cases we take, which means there is no fee unless we recover for you. The fee is a percentage of the recovery, and if there is no recovery, you do not owe an attorney fee.
Read the answer →Questions about the law in your state?
Filing deadlines, fault rules, and limits on damages differ by state. Choose where you were hurt for answers under that state's law.
General information, not legal advice. Every situation is different, and the law differs by state.