IWasPoisoned.com Introduces New Teen Accounts

CLAYMONT, DE-As part of its effort to make the popular consumer-led food safety platform kid-friendly and provide parents with tools for oversight, IWasPoisoned.com announced Friday that it was now offering teen accounts.Starting today, new restrictions have been placed on the accounts of IWasPoisoned.com users under the age of 18, who will now need permission to view certain posts about contracting food poisoning at local restaurants," said website CEO and founder Patrick Quade, adding that a feature called Family Poison Center would allow parents to decide both how many and what kinds of user-generated posts about nausea, diarrhea, or vomiting their children could see. First and foremost, we hope that IWasPoisoned.com can be a safe, supportive place where children who have eaten tainted food and contracted a dangerous bout of norovirus, listeria, or E.coli can describe that experience to strangers in graphic detail. We are also committed to blocking various keywords that are harmful to teens, including severe gas,' bloody stool,' hospital,' and Walmart Supercenter.'"The introduction of teen accounts follows an incident last year in which millions of children were reportedly exposed to an IWasPoisoned.com post written by the family of a 56-year-old man who ordered a barbacoa burrito from Chipotle and subsequently died in a pool of his own vomit, urine, and feces.

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