food poisoning
Definition
Disorder of digestive system caused from eating food (usually meat) contaminated with certain microorganism (that contain or produce toxins) or poisonous chemicals such as lead and mercury, or that is inherently harmful such as blow fish and poisonous berries and fungi. Its symptoms include abdominal pain, nausea, running diarrhea, and vomiting. Some types of food poisoning (such as botulism) can be fatal.
food poisoning is in the HACCP & Food Industry subject.
food poisoning appears in the definitions of the following terms: low risk foods, gastroenteritis, salmonella, clostridium, anaerobic, chilling, clostridium perfringens, staphylococcus and botulism
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