foodborne illness

English

Alternative forms

• food-borne illness

Noun

foodborne illness (countable and uncountable, plural foodborne illnesses)

1. (epidemiology) Synonym of food poisoning

Further reading

• “foodborne illness”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “foodborne”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “foodborne”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• foodborne illness, britannica.com
• Foodborne Illness and Disease, fsis.usda.gov
• Definition & Facts of Food Poisoning, www.niddk.nih.gov
• Food poisoning, mayoclinic.org
• food poisoning, foodborne illness at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.