Food Borne Disease Food Borne Disease Bact. Infection - organism enters body and causes disease E coli. But, even infections involve toxin production, so technically are intoxications.
Terminology sorta silly.
Sources Most disease starts with food and many foods can be suspect. Meats, milk, ice cream, cheeses, canned vegetables. In many cases this is fecal to oral, or fecal to food to oral. Yes that's right, there is feces in this food. The Organism - Vibrio cholerae Gram negative short curved rod can live in environment in contaminated shell fish free ocean Transmission Good old oral to fecal route.