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America is being bombarded by food poisoning scares -- here are 8 foods an expert says he refuses to eat

Apr 24, 2018, 2:21 AM liz west/FlickrThe CDC told shoppers to avoid romaine in all forms following an E. coli outbreak

Precut or prewashed fruits and veggies

Marler says he avoids these “like the plague.”

Convenience may be nice, but because more people handling and processing the food means more chances for contamination, it isn’t worth the risk, he says.

For example, a 2010 study from Consumer Reports found “unacceptable” levels of bacteria that commonly cause food poisoning in about a third of the 208 salad bags tested.

As Business Insider’s Rebecca Harrington notes, that doesn’t mean these bacteria actually caused an illness– just that they had the potential to do so.

“Raw water” Live Water/Instagram

“Almost everything conceivable that can make you sick can be found in water,” Marler said.

So-called raw water – even from the cleanest streams – can contain animal faeces, spreading giardia, an intestinal infection that includes symptoms such as vomiting and diarrhoea and results in roughly 4,600 hospitalizations a year.

Raw sprouts 

Uncooked flour Sydney Kramer/INSIDER

Uncooked flour is at the other end of the spectrum – something most people see as harmless but that can actually spread bacteria, Marler says.

Marler says that while most people think raw eggs are the biggest food-poisoning threat in cookie dough, the flour can also be a culprit. And you don’t even have to eat it – simply not washing your hands after getting uncooked flour on them can help spread E. coli bacteria.

Raw oysters Melie Nasr / Shutterstock.com

The culprit? Warming waters, he says.

Rare meat Lisovskaya Natalia/Shutterstock

Uncooked eggs Narong Jongsirikul/Shutterstock

According to Marler, the chance of getting food poisoning from raw eggs is much lower today than it was 20 years ago. But he still isn’t taking any chances. However, earlier in April, the Food and Drug Administration on Friday announced a recall of 206 million eggs over salmonella-contamination concerns.

Unpasteurized milk and juices A precursor to the raw-water trend was the movement encouraging people to drink “raw” milk and juices, arguing that pasteurization depletes nutritional value.





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