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Population Characteristics > Health > Public Health > Environmental Pollution > Food Contamination
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Environment and Public Health > Public Health > Environmental Pollution > Food Contamination
Health Occupations > Medicine > Public Health > Environmental Pollution > Food Contamination
... > Population Characteristics > Health > Public Health > Food Quality > Food Safety > Food Contamination
Environment and Public Health > Public Health > Food Quality > Food Safety > Food Contamination
... > Health Occupations > Medicine > Public Health > Food Quality > Food Safety > Food Contamination
... > Technology, Industry, and Agriculture > Industry > Food Industry > Food Technology > Food Quality > Food Safety > Food Contamination

Preferred term

Food Contamination  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

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Entry terms

  • Adulteration, Food
  • Adulterations, Food
  • Food Adulteration
  • Food Adulterations

Note

  • coordinate with specific food item; contamination by dirt, dust, chemicals & toxic substances, organisms; contamination by microbes: consider FOOD MICROBIOLOGY + specific microbe + specific food item /microbiol; contamination by parasites: consider FOOD PARASITOLOGY + specific parasite + specific food item /parasitol

Scope note

  • The presence in food of harmful, unpalatable, or otherwise objectionable foreign substances, e.g. chemicals, microorganisms or diluents, before, during, or after processing or storage.

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D005506

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