Food safety concern
The crossword clue "Food safety concern" is answered by ECOLI, a 5-letter entry. Used 9 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2015. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
ECOLI
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the ECOLI answer page.
Used 9 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2015. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for ECOLI
Every other clue in this collection answered by ECOLI, most used first.
- Dangerous bacteria - used 29 times, most recently in 2026
- Food-poisoning bacteria - used 15 times, most recently in 2023
- Reason for a food recall - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
- Gut bacteria - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
- Bacteria in uncooked food - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
- Intestinal bacteria - used 9 times, most recently in 2023
- Notorious bacteria - used 9 times, most recently in 2022
- Food recall cause - used 8 times, most recently in 2022
- Pathogenic bacteria - used 8 times, most recently in 2009
- Rod-shaped bacteria - used 8 times, most recently in 2012
- Scary bacteria - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
- Bacteria in the news - used 7 times, most recently in 2011
- Dangerous strain - used 7 times, most recently in 2021
- Food poisoning cause - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- Bacteria in undercooked meat - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
- Bad bacteria - used 6 times, most recently in 2015
- Cause of some food recalls - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
- Gut bacterium - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
Related clues
Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.
- Grammarian's concern - USAGE, used 96 times
- Food from heaven - MANNA, used 59 times
- Spin doctor's concern - IMAGE, used 51 times
- Pol's concern - IMAGE, used 43 times
- Poet's concern - METER, used 42 times
- Publicist's concern - IMAGE, used 35 times
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