Bacterial food poisoning is an acute toxic disease caused by the ingestion of food or water contaminated with bacteria and their toxins, and can have different clinical manifestations depending on the pathogen.

Food poisoning is an acute toxic illness caused by the ingestion of food contaminated with bacteria or bacterial toxins, or food containing toxins.

The classification of food poisoning is as follows:

1. Bacterial food poisoning: Infectious food poisoning, including Salmonella spp, Aspergillus spp, Vibrio parahaemolyticus, pathogenic coliforms, Clostridium difficile, etc.; Toxin food poisoning, including Clostridium botulinum toxin, staphylococcal enterotoxin, etc. caused by food poisoning;

2, Toxic animal and plant food poisoning: toxic animal poisoning such as puffer fish, toxic shellfish, fish histamine, animal offal (winter wolf and dog liver), glands (thyroid, etc.) caused by food poisoning; toxic plant poisoning such as poisonous mushrooms, cassava, beans, sprouted potatoes, fresh cauliflower, raw soya bean paste and so on caused by food poisoning;

3, chemical food poisoning: food by certain metals, metals and their compounds, nitrites and other substances, such as chlorine, chlorine, chlorine, chlorine, chlorine, chlorine, chlorine, chlorine, chlorine, chlorine, chlorine, chlorine, chlorine, chlorine, chlorine, chlorine, chlorine, chlorine, chlorine and chlorine. metal and its compounds, nitrite, pesticides and other contamination, or due to accidental consumption of food poisoning;

4, mycotoxin food poisoning: food poisoning caused by eating food containing contaminated by a large number of mycotoxins, such as ruderalis wheat, moldy sugar cane.

Legal basis

"Chinese People's **** and the State Food Safety Law"

Article 2 In the Chinese People's **** and the State engaged in the following activities, shall comply with this law:

(a) food production and processing (hereinafter referred to as food production), food sales and food service (hereinafter referred to as food business);

(b) Food additives;

(iii) the production and operation of packaging materials, containers, detergents, sanitizers used for food and tools and equipment used for food production and operation (hereinafter referred to as food-related products);

(iv) the use of food additives and food-related products by food production and operators;

(v) the storage and transportation of food;

( (vi) safety management of food, food additives, food-related products.

The quality and safety management of primary products originating from agriculture for consumption (hereinafter referred to as edible agricultural products) shall comply with the provisions of the Law of the People's Republic of China on the Quality and Safety of Agricultural Products. However, the market sale of edible agricultural products, the formulation of relevant quality and safety standards, the publication of relevant safety information and the provisions of this Law on agricultural inputs shall comply with the provisions of this Law. Article 150 Meaning of the following terms of this Law:

Food, means all kinds of finished products and raw materials for human consumption or drinking and articles that are both food and herbal medicine in accordance with tradition, but excludes articles intended for therapeutic purposes.

Food safety means that the food is non-toxic, non-hazardous, meets the nutritional requirements that it should have, and does not pose any acute, subacute or chronic hazards to human health.

Prepackaged food, means food that is pre-quantified or made in packaging materials or containers.

Food additives means synthetic or natural substances, including nutritional enhancers, that are added to food to improve its quality and color, aroma and taste, as well as for the purpose of preservation, freshness and processing.

Packaging materials and containers used for food, refers to packaging, holding food or food additives with paper, bamboo, wood, metal, enamel, ceramics, plastics, rubber, natural fibers, chemical fibers, glass and other products and coatings that are in direct contact with food or food additives.

Tools and equipment used in food production and management refer to machinery, pipelines, conveyor belts, containers, utensils, tableware, etc., which come into direct contact with food or food additives in the process of food or food additives production, sale and use.

Detergents and sanitizers used for food means substances directly used to wash or sanitize food, tableware, drinking utensils, and tools, equipment or food packaging materials and containers in direct contact with food.

Shelf life of food means the period of time during which the food maintains its quality under the labeled storage conditions.

Foodborne disease means infectious, toxic and other diseases caused by pathogenic factors in food entering the human body, including food poisoning.

Food safety incidents, refers to foodborne illness, food contamination and other food originating from food, human health hazards or may be harmful to the accident.