Question

Bacterial toxins are chemical products made by bacteria. A person ingests some honey containing Clostridium botulinum. The C. botulinum is actively growing and releases toxin in the honey. The person becomes ill from ingesting the toxin. This is an example of a/n

Answer 1

Answer:

Food borne intoxication

Explanation:

Foodborne diseases occur when we consume food which is contaminated with a pathogenic microbe or toxins released by these microbes. Foodborne diseases can be classified into foodborne infection and foodborne intoxication.

Foodborne infection occurs when we consume food contaminated with pathogenic organisms and foodborne intoxication occurs when we consume food which contains toxins or poisonous substances released by the pathogenic microbes.

Botulism is a foodborne intoxication caused by ingestion of toxins produced by C. botulinum. So the correct answer is foodborne intoxication.