The article doesn't mention a "big" commercial botulism case. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1971_Bon_Vivant_botulism_case https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1971_Bon

The article doesn't mention a "big" commercial botulism case. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1971_Bon_Vivant_botulism_case https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1971_Bon_Vivant_botulism_case I put "big" in quotes because only one person died. But it caused quite the scare, people were afraid of eating canned soup. The company went bankrupt. Not nearly as deadly as E. coli. E.g. in 1993, 732 people were infected and four died from undercooked hamburger at Jack In The Box.[1] And it continues. A quick google found an article that claims[2] approximately 100,000 illnesses, 3,000 hospitalizations, and 90 deaths annually in the United States [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1993_Jack_in_the_Box_E._coli_outbreak https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1993_Jack_in_the_Box_E._coli_o... [2] http://www.about-ecoli.com/ http://www.about-ecoli.com/