What term best describes a disease transmitted to people by food?

• A. A disease transmitted to people by food
• B. A disease transmitted through water
• C. An allergic reaction to foods
• D. A chronic nutritional deficiency

Answer: (A)

Foodborne illness is the term for diseases that people can catch from contaminated food. This explains why a description like “a disease transmitted to people by food” fits best: it directly conveys that the illness is spread via the food we eat, whether from pathogens like bacteria or viruses or from toxins produced by microbes. The other options aren’t about diseases spread through food: one refers to illnesses spread by water, another to an immune reaction to foods, and the last to a nutritional deficiency. So the phrasing that matches the idea of transmission through food is the most accurate way to name this concept.