21.   Hepatitis A is a viral inflammation of the liver spread through close person-to-person contact and by contaminated food and water.

22.   Hepatitis A is transmitted mainly by contaminated food and water, which is why international travelers often get infected.

23.   Hepatitis can be spread in many ways, including through contaminated food and water, sexual intercourse, contaminated needles and blood transfusions.

24.   Hepatitis A, transmitted mostly by contaminated food and water, can cause a short bout of severe fever, nausea and jaundice, but not chronic liver disease.

25.   In Belgium, a Green parliamentarian, Magda Aelvot, was named health minister last month and promptly launched a crackdown on contaminated food.

26.   It is produced by a bacteria that could be spread through the air or in deliberately contaminated food.

27.   It thrives in fecal matter, and is passed on from person to person through contaminated food and water.

28.   Mad cow disease is even more frightening, causing a uniformly fatal brain disease that can kill years after victims ingest contaminated food.

29.   Most are contracted on foreign trips, usually through fecally contaminated food or water.

30.   National shippers can deliver contaminated foods far and wide.