People must consume enough safe and nutritious food to remain alive and healthy. Consumption of unsafe foods, contaminated with harmful bacteria, viruses, parasites, or chemical substances, is responsible for more than 200 diseases, ranging from diarrhea to cancer. Diarrheal diseases are the most common illnesses caused by contaminated food, affecting 550 million people and killing 230 thousand people each year, globally. Even in developed countries, some bacterial foodborne pathogens threaten people's life through ingestion of daily meals. Of concern is Staphylococcus argenteus—a bacterial organism that causes food poisoning. It was first discovered as a genetically distinct lineage in the Aboriginal communities in Australia. Since then, Staphylococcus argenteus has been isolated on other continents, indicating its global prevalence.