foodborne

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An illness you get from eating or touching food that has germs

adjective
/ˈfuːdˌbɔrn/

Specialized

: transmitido por alimentos

The approaches used so far, while improving the retail food environment and some operations, have failed to attain the objective of preventing foodborne diseases, which is what food safety is all about.
foodborne illness
foodborne disease
foodborne outbreak

There'd been a series of crises, some drug safety issues, some foodborne outbreaks.

Examples

Each year, millions of people get sick from foodborne illnesses caused by contaminated food.
Prevention can be accomplished by minimizing the foodborne illness risk factors in an operation.

Academic text (2010)
In the 1990s, the media and consumer groups became aware of foodborne disease problems and concerned about the environment.

Academic text (2002)
Instead, these activities will provide key pieces of information required to improve foodborne disease prevention and establish a foundation for measuring program health impact.

Academic text (2010)
This development has provided momentum and funds for several programs dealing with foodborne disease surveillance and food safety.

Academic text (2002)
With the hands-off approach comes an increase in foodborne illness.

Blog text (1)
Ms. Saupe is an epidemiologist in the foodborne diseases unit at the Minnesota Department of Health.

Academic text (2013)
The key to using irradiation is to eliminate foodborne pathogens without affecting product quality.

Academic text (2005)
Recent changes in the social and economic environments of Korea have changed patterns of food consumption and have increased the risk of foodborne illnesses, which therefore require improvements in food safety programs.

Academic text (2009)
The research reported here suggests that people suffering from a foodborne illness frequently do not seek health care, which is consistent with the findings of others (Imhoff et al., 2004; Mead et al., 1999).

Academic text (2006)

Surface Forms

foodborne positive

Morphology

foodborne = food + borne (transparent) = food + borne

The adjective is formed from the clear combination 'food' + 'borne' meaning 'carried by food', which is directly inferable.

Etymology

Foodborne joins food and borne, and borne means 'carried', like in airborne which means 'carried by air'. So a foodborne illness is one 'carried by food'.