Why do the Chinese not die from food poisoning?

If something doesn't fall exactly within those parameters, for example if something gets left out too long, it doesn't mean everyone's going to die of food poisoning. It does increase the chances of food poisoning, and it's pretty easy for that to happen in China, especially to Westerners. read more

Not to mention the melamine milks scandal of 2008, which left 300,000 infants sick and six dead. The situation is so dire that the World Health Organization lists poisoning, accidental or intentional, as one of the top 10 causes of death for Chinese ages five to 29. read more

Food poisoning is a food borne disease. Ingestion of food that contains a toxin, chemical or infectious agent (like a bacterium, virus, parasite, or prion) may cause adverse symptoms in the body. Those symptoms may be related only to the gastrointestinal tract causing vomiting or diarrhea or they may involve other organs such as the kidney, brain, or muscle. read more