food poisoning

[Blossom]

What type of foods may cause poisoning?

[Mr Skeptic]

Poisonous foods and rotten foods.

[Horza2002]

It is not the food intself that makes you ill, its is whatever has contaminated the food is what causes you to be ill. In most cases, you get food posioning if food is contaminated by bacteria that were not killed by the cooking process. Fungi and viruses can also contaminate your food as well.

 

Typically, the most common food posioning results from bacterial contamination (E.coli, Salmonella, etc) that then bread in your gut (again provided they survive passing through the stomach). As they grow, they often release toxins into your gut which is what actually makes you ill.

 

So any food that is capable of sustaining bacterial growth...and again, the different pathogens grow in different foods. Salmonella is normally caught by eating infected poultry, including eggs, whereas Bacillius cereus is often caught from undercooked/reheated rice. It all depends on what your eating.

 

The best way to avoid food posioning is proper food hygine and cooking food properly.

[michel123456]

Has your question a relation with this thread?

[JorgeLobo]

Mr. skeptic put it quite succinctly but I'll also offer the following.

Presume you mean edible food that has become "poisonous" rather than eating something innately unsafe - improperly prepared blowfish, amanita, uncooked snake. One could classify etiology in two ways - infective content and toxic content. Examples of the 1st would be salmonela, Shigella, E coli 0157 (NOT just E. coli), hepatitis virus. The second a toxin such as aflatoxin, B. cereus toxin or staph enterotoxin.

Edited March 14, 2011 by JorgeLobo