Objective To analyze the reported food poisoning incidents in public health emergency events surveillance system in china,2008—2010.Methods Descriptive statistics were used to analyze the food poisoning incidents in public health emergency events surveillance system in 2008—2010.Results There were 1218 food poisoning incidents were reported,which included 35 672 poisoning cases,518 death cases and 1.45% of fatality rate.The reported events peaked during June-October,and the highest peak was September.The classification of pathogenic factors which included 480 unknown events,320 events caused by microbiology,279 events caused by vegetable,122 events caused by chemical,and 17 events caused by animal.Conclusion The highest numbers of food poisoning events were caused by micro-organism in reported food poisoning incidents in public health emergency events surveillance system in china.Poisonous mushrooms,pesticides,rat poison are the main reason caused by poisoning deaths in food poisoning events.