Eating chop unfortunately causing illness (10)

I believe the answer is:

pathogenic

'causing illness' is the definition.
(pathogens cause illnesses)

'eating chop unfortunately' is the wordplay.
'unfortunately' is an anagram indicator.
'eating'+'chop'='eatingchop'
'eatingchop' is an anagram of 'PATHOGENIC'.

(Another definition for pathogenic that I've seen is " Causing disease".)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.

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