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Listeria (food poisoning)
Listeria is bacteria carried in some foods that can cause an infection and may lead to miscarriage. Find out ways to avoid listeria infections.
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Food preparation and safety
Food poisoning can be avoided by correct food preparation and safety in the kitchen. Learn more about food storage, preparation and cooking.
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Medicine and poisons safety in the home
Learn more about the importance of child-resistant packaging, how to reduce the risk of poisoning and what to do if your child swallows a poison.
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Food poisoning in children and teenagers | Raising Children Network
Food poisoning is a type of gastroenteritis, usually caused by germs in contaminated food. Symptoms include nausea, vomiting, stomach pain and diarrhoea.
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Preventing food poisoning at home | SA Health
Food poisoning can be caused by eating food contaminated by bacteria, viruses, parasites or fungi, or by toxins produced by them
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Food poisoning - listeria - Better Health Channel
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Food safety | Sydney Children's Hospitals Network
When people get sick from eating food, this is known as 'food borne' illness or ‘food poisoning’
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Lead exposure
Lead is a naturally occurring heavy metal and is a soft greyish-blue colour. People can be exposed to lead in the environment through the air, dusts, food and water which is mainly absorbed into the body by eating or inhalation.
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Dangerous & poisonous plants: child safety | Raising Children Network
Keep children safe in the garden by removing, fencing off or not growing poisonous plants and dangerous plants. This guide has pictures of plants to avoid.
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Poisonous or harmful plants | Sydney Children's Hospitals Network
Lots of plants are poisonous or capable of causing highly allergic reactions
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