(of a disease) carried by or transmitted through contaminated food.
eating uncooked meat and seafood can increase your risk of food-borne illness
Example sentencesExamples
- These rules are the best way for caterers to ensure customer safety and reduce food-borne disease.
- Food-borne illnesses cause another 5,000 deaths per year.
- We won't ensure food safety in this country unless we're more preventive about food-borne illness.
- Take care when storing and preparing meats, poultry, fish and eggs at home to reduce risk of food-borne illness.
- Eating certain foods increases the risk of food-borne illnesses.
- Food-borne transmission is rare but can occur with ingestion of raw or undercooked foods.
- The pumping of mud waste into marine environments may be responsible for food-borne poisoning and illnesses.
- Food-borne illnesses are especially serious and potentially life-threatening for young children.
- It is a bacterium responsible for food-borne infections linked to eating undercooked ground beef.
- Food-borne illness is a huge problem for the general public and the restaurant industry specifically.