Food-borne Pathogens
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| Foodborne Illness | An infection or irritation of the gastrointestinal tract caused by food or beverages that contain harmful bacteria, parasites, viruses, or chemicals.
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| At Risk Foods | Foods that are at risk of being contaminated by harmful contaminants.
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| Bacteria | Microscopic living organisms, usually one-celled, that can be found everywhere.
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| Hepatitis A | A highly contagious liver infection.
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| Clostridium Perfringens | A spore-forming gram-positive bacterium that is found in many environmental sources as well as in the intestines of humans and animals.
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| Staphylococcus Aureus | Is caused by a strain of staph bacteria that's become resistant to the antibiotics commonly used to treat ordinary staph infections.
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| Clean | Morally uncontaminated
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| Listeria Monocytogenes | Is a serious infection usually caused by eating food contaminated with the bacterium Listeria monocytogenes
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| Pathogen | A bacterium, virus, or other microorganism that can cause disease.
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| High Risk Foods | Are foods that "may contain pathogenic microorganisms and will normally support formation of toxins or growth of pathogenic microorganisms.
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| Parasites | an organism that lives in or on another organism and benefits by deriving nutrients at the host's expense.
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| Virus | An infective agent that typically consists of a nucleic acid molecule in a protein coat, is too small to be seen by light microscopy, and is able to multiply only within the living cells of a host.
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| Norwalk Virus | A virus that can cause epidemics of severe gastroenteritis.
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| Salmonella | A bacterium that occurs mainly in the intestine, especially a serotype causing food poisoning.
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| Vibriocholerae | The agent of cholera, a devastating and sometimes lethal disease with profuse watery diarrhea.
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| Sanitize | Conditions relating to public health such as staying clean and sterile.
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| Immunocompromised | Having an impaired immune system.
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| Medium Risk Foods | Having a medium risk of having contamination in foods such as uncooked foods for example.
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| Fungi | Any of a diverse group of eukaryotic single-celled or multinucleate organisms that live by decomposing and absorbing the organic material in which they grow
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| Trichinella Spiralis | Is a nematode parasite, occurring in rodents, pigs, horse, bears and humans, and is responsible for the disease trichinosis.
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| Clostridium Botulinum | A highly potent neurotoxin and the cause of the disease botulism.
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| Shigella | A bacterium that is an intestinal pathogen of humans and other primates, some kinds of which cause dysentery.
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| Personal Hygeine | Is one of the most effective ways to protect ourselves, and others, from illness.
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| Campylobacter Jejuni | A bacterium that typically infects the bowels. Now the leading cause of bacterial food poisoning
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