Sarah a twenty-year-old student to spend Thanksgiving at her grandparent's farm. During her drive back the next day, she began to lose sight of her vision. The vision began to worsen and when help arrived she then had trouble speaking and swallowing. She was driven to the Emergency Room where she was able to tell the physician the symptoms she was experiencing, he noted that she has eaten in the last 24 hours. He was interested in the fact that her grandmother canned her own vegetables and he wanted a sample of the food items to test for the bacteria botulism. Botulism is a form of food poisoning caused by the exposure to a toxin called botulin. The toxin botulin is produced by Clostridium Botulism which is a spore forming anaerobic bacteria
