Answer:
Health is adversely affected by contaminated food and contaminated food can cause food borne diseases.
Explanation:
Contaminated food can contain pathogenic microbes like <em>Salmonella</em>, <em>Clostridium, Shigella, E.coli, Toxoplasma gondii</em>, etc which can cause food borne diseases like salmonellosis, shigellosis, toxoplasmosis, gastrointestinal infection, clostridial food poisoning, etc. Some of the disease or infection caused by contaminated food can be fatal therefore contaminated food adversely affects the health of a person.
Further explanation:
Contaminated food can cause food borne disease if consumed by humans. Food borne disease is illness caused by recently ingested food which was contaminated with pathogenic microbes.
Food borne diseases are classified into food borne infections and food borne intoxication.
Food borne infection is caused by directly consuming pathogenic organisms present in the food and food borne intoxication is caused by consumption of food containing toxins that was produced by pathogenic bacteria like toxin released by <em>Clostridium botulinum</em> causes a fatal disease called botulism.
Food borne infection generally have a long incubation period and fever is its characteristic feature while food borne intoxication has a short incubation period and does not cause fever.
Therefore contaminated food is harmful to humans if consumed because it contains pathogenic organisms and toxins which can adversely affect human health and sometimes can be fatal.
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Keywords:
Food borne infections, food borne intoxication, Clostridium , food borne disease, Salmonellosis, Shigellosis, Toxoplasmosis.