The a href="http://www.foodliabilitylaw.com/"Food Liability Law Blog/a has some interesting posts, including this one that features an Oregon and Washington public health officer: a href="http://www.foodliabilitylaw.com/2008/12/articles/food-litigation-tips/is-it-a-really-foodborne-illness/"?Is it Really a Food-Born Illness?/a?br /br /a href="http://www.foodliabilitylaw.com/2008/12/articles/food-litigation-tips/is-it-a-really-foodborne-illness/"Excerpt/a:br /br /"emAt a recent presentation, Dr. Alan Melnick, a public health officer in both Oregon and Washington, provided a useful list of alternative causes of symptoms to consider when someone claims a food-borne illness. Other causes of symptoms that might be confused for food-borne illness include (but may not be limited to):br /br /· Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS)br /· Inflammatory bowel diseasebr /· Malignanciesbr /· Antibiotic usebr /· Gastro-intestinal surgery or radiationbr /· Malabsorption syndromesbr /· Immune deficiency ...."/embr /br /(emread /ema href="http://www.foodliabilitylaw.com/2008/12/articles/food-litigation-tips/is-it-a-really-foodborne-illness/"emfull post/em/aem with a chart! Legal (and other) researchers love charts.)/embr /br /I?ve blogged before about Food Law, a href="http://oregonlegalresearch.blogspot.com/2008/09/healthy-food-tax-credit-not-fat-tax.html"here /aand a href="http://oregonlegalresearch.blogspot.com/2008/08/oregon-restaurant-food-safety.html"here/a.img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/OregonLegalResearch/~4/489841446" height="1" width="1"/