Sharon Mills was named Tesco Campaigning Mum of the Year for her work leading to a "scores on the doors" system forcing Welsh restaurants and takeaways to display hygiene ratings.
Mason Jones, from Deri, near Bargoed, Rhymney Valley, died in 2005.
Helen Wynne, from Wrexham, also won one of the Tesco awards for setting up a special needs child-minding service.
Miss Mills told BBC Wales she was proud of what she and her family had achieved.
'Tragic consequences'"Food safety has improved significantly since the outbreak. It's a huge achievement for us," she said.
"I'm mostly proud of my son. Without the tragic consequences this would not have been achieved."
Continue reading the main story HELEN WYNNE'S AWARDHelen Wynne, 40, from Wrexham, won the Tesco Achieving Mum of the Year award after setting up her own special needs child-minding service following the birth of her son Dyfan.
The seven-year-old suffers from genetic disorder so rare that he is the only sufferer in the UK, and one of just five in the world.
Mrs Wynne, who also has a daughter Meg, 12, miscarried six times before becoming pregnant with Dyfan. He was born in 2004 but diagnosed with meningitis at a week old.
Doctors also discovered he had the disorder affecting his chromosome 8, which meant he would never walk or talk.
Mrs Wynne said: "I was absolutely stunned - how do you deal with that? But we knew we had to get on with it and give Dyfan the best care possible - so we did."
With no childcare services in the area able to look after Dyfan, Mrs Wynne re-trained and set up her own. In 2004, Blythswood Childcare Services was launched.
She and her husband, Dean, care for 12 children at any one time, and also offer respite care.
Mrs Wynne said: "Being mum to Dyfan has given me a different journey to the one I expected but I wouldn't change a thing."
A further 157 people, mostly children, became ill during the outbreak.
A butcher was prosecuted for breaking food safety laws and was jailed for a year in 2007.
He supplied meat to another 44 other schools in the south Wales valleys.
Miss Mills won the Campaigning Mum of the Year for her work following the tragedy
The "scores on the doors" hygiene grading scheme enables people to see if a food outlet's standards are below par.
Miss Mills cheap lulu lemon worked closely with the Food Standards Agency and Consumer Focus Wales to make the improvements.
Consultation ends in March on the Food Hygiene (Wales) Bill, which will make it compulsory for food businesses in Wales to display information on their hygiene standards by late 2013.
Liz Jarvis, from Tesco, who made the award, said Miss Mills was an "incredible campaigner" and a "fantastic mum".
The judging panel included choreographer Arlene Philips and Olympic gold medallist Denise Lewis.
Miss Mills will be presented with her award at a ceremony in London in March.
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