Acute illnesses, usually affecting the GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT, brought on by consuming contaminated food or beverages. Most of these diseases are infectious, caused by a variety of bacteria, viruses, or parasites that can be foodborne. Sometimes the diseases are caused by harmful toxins from the microbes or other chemicals present in the food. Especially in the latter case, the condition is often called food poisoning
Here are entered works on difficulties digesting certain foods, which lead to physical symptoms. Works on immune responses to specific foods are entered under Food allergy. Works on the toxic effects of food containing naturally poisonous substances or toxic chemical residues are entered under Food--Toxicology
Igbo (African people) -- Food. : The anthropology of food in rural Igboland, Nigeria : socioeconomic and cultural aspects of food and food habit in rural Igboland / L.C. Okere
Food in popular culture -- Caribbean Area -- Congresses : Caribbean food cultures : culinary practices and consumption in the Caribbean and its diasporas / Wiebke Beushausen, Anne Brüske, Ana-Sofia Commichau, Patrick Helber, Sinah Kloss (eds.)
Indians of Mexico -- Food -- Exhibitions : Eating & being : the gastronomic roots of Mexico / texts, Nathalie Armella, Vicente Camacho, Paulina Franch, Carlos Villanueva ; English translation, Rose Vekony
Indians of North America -- Food -- Four Corners Region : Our Sacred Maíz is Our Mother : Indigeneity and Belonging in the Americas / Roberto Cintli Rodríguez ; with Paula Domingo Olivares, Irma Tzirin Socop, Francisco Pos, Alicia Seyler, Mama Angelbertha Cobb, Tata Cuaxtle Felix Evodio, Luz Maria de la Torre, and Maria Molina
