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No, not really. Sure, a teeny, tiny, absolutely insignificant number of atoms from the disinfectant have landed on all the surfaces in the room, including food, but this is absolutely 100% insignificant (assuming it wasn't sprayed near/towards the food where it was visibly landing on it).
To put this into perspective, consider that there's poop particles in the air all throughout your house in varying amounts, carried from your toilet, most famously on your toothbrush, which is often very close to the toilet (often in the same room). But in such tiny amounts as these, it's entirely benign, and you'd never know!
The world is slightly disgusting in harmless ways, like that. You have microscopic mites living in your eyelashes, there's more bacteria per cell in your body than human, and I think we're all very well educated nowadays on how easily bodily secretions such as snot, spittle, etc, are transferred to others through sneezing, physical contact with surface, etc, contaminating everything and everyone with potential illnesses.
Such is life! Don't worry about it :-)
(Except the part about spreading things like COVID, do take precautions there).
Exactly. If you can smell it, then there's molecules in the air and that's going to mean it's also on the food. It's completely insignificant though. Eating next to a dumpster doesn't mean my food's contaminated even though technically those same molecules that I'm smelling are getting on the food.