Mysterious contaminant paranoia is a variety of contamination paranoia encountered in individuals who are not educated on food chemical intolerance and have not sorted out what they are reacting to and what they are not reacting to.They appear to have mysterious reactions that they cannot pin down. As a result they are paranoid of unknown and ill defined "toxins" in foods and the environment.

Examples of mysterious contaminant paranoia include fear and suspicion of adverse reactions to:

• Mercury and heavy metals (throwing out household items)
• Fluoride in the water supply (excessive filtering of water)
• Organophosphates, pesticides and endocrine disruptors (excessive washing of vegetables)
• Non-stick coatings on pans (throwing out household items)

Mysterious contaminant paranoia can result in a diagnosis of Multiple Chemical Sensitivity. In fact the affected individual is not reacting to multiple mysterious chemicals, but to a few omnipresent chemicals in foods and the household environment.

Once on a full food chemical elimination program like failsafe, the true cause of these mysterious reactions will be resolved successfully.