If the recent cases of food poisoning made you paranoid about the cleanliness of the food you are having and made you scared for your overall tummy health, try to consider the tips of a food poisoning expert-especially the food he will never ever eat for precaution.
In his 20 years of litigating food-borne diseases career, Bill Marler has sorted 6 foods that he has cut from his diet permanently through an article he wrote and posted in the Food Poisoning Journal on Saturday.
1. Raw sprouts
Even if its lightly cooked, Marler makes sure he would not consume this because of the numerous cases of salmonella poisoning throughout the years. He cited 30 bacterial outbreaks during the mid 90's and the 19 cases back in 2014.
"There have been too many outbreaks to not pay attention to the risk of sprout contamination," Marler said. "Those are products that I just don't eat at all."
2. Prewashed or precut fruits and vegetables
"I avoid these like the plague," Marler said. For the food poisoning expert, nothing is best than buying natural, whole and uncut produce from the market. The less it is processed, the less it is exposed to different things that increases the potential danger to your health.
"We've gotten so used to the convenience of mass-produced food-bagged salad and boxed salads and precut this and precut that," Marler says. "Convenience is great but sometimes I think it isn't worth the risk."
3. Rare meat
Though it may be a popular appetizer, Marler notes that "warming temperatures in the ocean can produce more microbial growth and could be the reason for the increase in foodborne illnesses from raw shellfish."
6. Raw eggs
Despite the decrease of salmonella poisoning caused by raw eggs intake in the last 20 years, Marler still vows to thoroughly cook his eggs.
Bill Marler is currently part of the ongoing litigation against Chipotle Mexican Grill, after numerous cases of E.coli and Norovirus were reported. He has gained his credibility after winning more than an accumulated amount of fine of $600 Million for clients since 1993.
