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| Microbial contaminant that may cause foodborne illness. |
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| Chemical substance that can cause a foodborne illness. |
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| Foreign object that is accidentally introduced into food or a naturally occurring object, such as a bone in a fillet. |
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| preventing or eliminating the deliberate contamination of food. |
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| Poisons produced by pathogens and found in some plants and animals. |
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| Illness that occurs when a person eats fish that has consumed ciguatoxin, which is found in certain marine algae. |
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| Ciguatera fish poisoning: |
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| illness caused by consuming high levels of histamine, a toxin that forms when scombroid and other species of fish are subject to time temperature abuse. |
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| illness that results when food containing toxic metal is eaten. |
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| the body’s negative reaction to a particular food protein. |
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