Table 2. Number and proportion of foodborne disease outbreaks, illnesses, and deaths by etiology in China, 2020.
| Etiology | Outbreaks | Illnesses | Deaths | Fatality rate* (%) | ||||||
| Number | Proportion (%) | Number | Proportion (%) | Number | Proportion (%) | |||||
| * Refers to uncooked Phaseolusbeans. † Contained in uncooked soy milk. § Including wild flowers, hellebore, wild ginseng, pollen, daffodils, and wild fruits, etc. Including bee pupae and silkworm pupae. **Including dog liver, insects, fish gall, toads and ants, etc. †† Including Shigella, Aeromonas, Enterobacter cloacae, Citrobacter flaudus, Schneider, and Enterococcus, etc. §§ Including Carbamates, organophosphates, pyrethroids, paraquat, bromfamethamine and bromadiolone, etc. Including clenbuterol hydrochloride, xylazine, and tetramine. ***Including lead, engine oil, desiccant, chlorine dioxide, and detergent, etc. | ||||||||||
| Poisonous mushrooms | 2,705 | 38.2 | 9,111 | 24.3 | 80 | 55.9 | 0.9 | |||
| Plant and animal toxicants | 1,020 | 14.4 | 4,584 | 12.2 | 21 | 14.7 | 0.5 | |||
| Undercooked Phaseolus* | 318 | 4.5 | 1,526 | 4.1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |||
| Coriaria sinica | 111 | 1.6 | 354 | 1.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |||
| Potherb | 93 | 1.3 | 355 | 1.0 | 1 | 0.7 | 0.3 | |||
| Aconite | 84 | 1.2 | 337 | 1.0 | 12 | 8.4 | 3.6 | |||
| Bitter bottle gourd | 48 | 0.7 | 381 | 1.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |||
| Tungoil or seed | 46 | 0.7 | 238 | 0.6 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |||
| Hyoscyamine | 33 | 0.5 | 183 | 0.5 | 1 | 0.7 | 0.6 | |||
| Herb-medicine | 27 | 0.4 | 110 | 0.3 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |||
| Elephant’s-ear | 24 | 0.3 | 86 | 0.2 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |||
| Sproutedpotato/solanine | 17 | 0.2 | 97 | 0.3 | 2 | 1.4 | 2.1 | |||
| Colchicin | 12 | 0.2 | 78 | 0.2 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |||
| Gelsemine | 11 | 0.2 | 64 | 0.2 | 3 | 2.1 | 4.7 | |||
| Castor bean | 10 | 0.1 | 58 | 0.2 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |||
| Pokeberry root | 10 | 0.1 | 42 | 0.1 | 1 | 0.7 | 2.4 | |||
| Sago seed | 10 | 0.1 | 36 | 0.1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |||
| Barbados nut | 9 | 0.1 | 41 | 0.1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |||
| Undercooked soymilk/Trypsin inhibitor† | 3 | 0.0 | 18 | 0.1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |||
| Other plants toxicants§ | 83 | 1.2 | 285 | 0.8 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |||
| Fish roe | 19 | 0.3 | 51 | 0.1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |||
| Tetrodotoxin | 15 | 0.2 | 53 | 0.1 | 1 | 0.7 | 1.9 | |||
| Pupae | 13 | 0.2 | 60 | 0.2 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |||
| langoustine | 10 | 0.1 | 25 | 0.1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |||
| Other animal toxicants** | 14 | 0.2 | 106 | 0.3 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |||
| Bacterial | 766 | 10.8 | 10,483 | 28.0 | 16 | 11.2 | 0.2 | |||
| Salmonella | 286 | 4.0 | 3,446 | 9.2 | 4 | 2.8 | 0.1 | |||
| Vibrio parahaemolyticus | 128 | 1.8 | 1,848 | 4.9 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |||
| Staphylococcus aureus | 75 | 1.1 | 954 | 2.6 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |||
| Escherichia coli | 54 | 0.8 | 1,520 | 4.1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |||
| Bacillus cereus | 50 | 0.7 | 620 | 1.7 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |||
| Bacillus proteus | 10 | 0.1 | 149 | 0.4 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |||
| Clostridium perfringens | 5 | 0.1 | 287 | 0.8 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |||
| Bongkrek acid†† | 5 | 0.1 | 23 | 0.1 | 12 | 8.4 | 52.2 | |||
| Campylobacter jejuni | 3 | 0.0 | 133 | 0.4 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |||
| Clostridium botulinum | 3 | 0.0 | 10 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |||
| Listeria monocytogenes | 1 | 0.0 | 28 | 0.1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |||
| Others | 108 | 1.5 | 807 | 2.2 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |||
| 2 or more pathogens | 12 | 0.2 | 224 | 0.6 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |||
| Norovirus | 26 | 0.4 | 434 | 1.2 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |||
| Chemical agents | 163 | 2.3 | 922 | 2.5 | 22 | 15.4 | 2.4 | |||
| Nitrite | 80 | 1.1 | 457 | 1.2 | 5 | 3.5 | 1.1 | |||
| Pesticide§§ | 53 | 0.8 | 255 | 0.7 | 2 | 1.4 | 0.8 | |||
| Prohibited drugs | 10 | 0.1 | 115 | 0.3 | 1 | 0.7 | 0.9 | |||
| Methanol | 9 | 0.1 | 56 | 0.2 | 14 | 9.8 | 25.0 | |||
| Other chemical pollutants*** | 11 | 0.2 | 39 | 0.1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |||
| Fungi | 7 | 0.1 | 27 | 0.1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |||
| Parasitic | 1 | 0.0 | 4 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |||
| Unknown etiology | 2,411 | 34.1 | 12,323 | 32.9 | 4 | 2.8 | 0.0 | |||
| Total | 7,073 | 100.0 | 37,454 | 100.0 | 143 | 100.0 | 0.4 | |||