In today’s world, children constitute a major proportion of the global population and they are the one who are easily affected by food borne diseases because of their weak immune system. It has been reported that 10% of the 5.8 million people living in the world are children less than 5 years of age, and among them annually 1.8 million children die from the direct effects of diarrhoeal diseases. (World Health Organisation, 1998)1. Infant mortality is an important measure of public health. It is regarded as a reliable and sensitive index of the total health of a community and is often used as an indicator to gauge the level of socio-economic development of a country (Margaret Kosek, et. al., 2003)9. The Government of India also has taken many steps to reduce the infant mortality rate. Educational programs and written educational pieces are circulated among the consumers and food handlers. Media campaigns are also organized which helps in awareness reaching a large number of the consumers and mothers at homes. Videotapes are also telecasted at particular locations where people come together (Mary Alice Gettings and Nancy Ellen Kiernan, 2001)12. In spite of the precautions taken by the government to create awareness, infant mortality rate has been increasing year by year. In India, out of 7.6 million children, 49.3 percent (or 3.754 million) children died in the first five years of their life in 2010. And more than 16.8 lakh children below five years died of infectious diseases and, more than half of them could not complete the first month of their life. Out of the total deaths 52 percent or above 0.875 million were children who died in the first 28 days of their life. Mothers take utmost care for their child and try to protect their child from death and food borne disease. However a question arises, why the child mortality rate is high in India even though the mothers take high protection and safety for their child. Hence, the researcher has made an attempt to analyse the cause and effects of infants’ death rate and their food borne diseases due to mothers’ carelessness in preparing food at home. The main objective of the study is to analyse the and identify the reasons for infant mortality rate and its cause and effect.