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What is the cause of food poisoining?
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Non-specific term: Food poisoning is an expression to describe any process which creates gastrointestinal inflammation with nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, abdominal pain, etc. It unfortunately does not describe the cause, which may be contaminants in the food, bacterial toxins or bacterial infection, and other things.
Answered 10/3/2016
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