Important tips to avoid food poisoning

Avoid these foods for their health!
For many people, there is nothing better than a decent sumptuous meal with friends or family, in which all kinds of dishes and desserts spoil the palate. However, food can also sometimes cause unpleasant problems, for example, when people suffer food poisoning.

The consequences of delicious and extensive Essgelagen are usually harmless. Some abdominal pressure and drowsiness are good for most people. The problem gets worse when we get food poisoning. Bill Marler, a food safety specialist, has now published some tips on how to avoid most cases of food poisoning on the Tech Times news portal.

For certain foods, the risk of food poisoning is significantly increased, which is why it should be better avoided. (Image: Lars Zahner / fotolia.com)

Worldwide, 351,000 people die from food poisoning every year
If you have ever had food poisoning, you know what unpleasant consequences such poisoning can have. Most of the inconvenience is only for a few days and improvement often occurs without treatment, but that's not always the case, the expert emphasizes to Tech Times. Viral strains are just as fast becoming stronger as medical experts find a way to treat them. Not all people are fortunate enough to have such a strong immune system that can successfully fight the attacks of viruses and bacteria. According to a World Health Organization (WHO) report, some 351,000 people die each year from food poisoning. That's really shocking, but there are ways to avoid being part of that statistic, explains Bill Marler. Here are his hints as to which foods you should avoid.

Raw oysters and raw shellfish
It should be no surprise that oysters and shellfish pick up dangerous substances found at the bottom of the sea. When such food is consumed raw, the affected persons ingest all these dangerous toxins and bacteria. Oysters can be an aphrodisiac, but no one will find it stimulating to vomit multiple times, Marler says.

Raw meat
The expert generally advises against eating raw meat. Meat should be thoroughly heated to 160 degrees Fahrenheit (70 degrees Celsius) to avoid poisoning by E. coli, salmonella and other bacterial diseases, warns Marler. However, he would choose in good restaurants for a steak, which was only "medium" fried, added the lawyer.

Unpasteurized milk and juices
Avoid such drinks. By pasteurizing Louis Pasteur wanted to kill bacteria in milk. The process is used by many companies worldwide to make their products safer. Non-pasteurized milk and juices, for example, increase the risk of E.coli poisoning, explains Bill Marler.

Pre-cut fruits and vegetables
Of course it is more convenient to buy pre-cut fruit. However, one can not be so sure which impurities the product was previously exposed. The more a food product is processed, the more bacteria adhere to it, reports the expert. A little more convenience is not worth the risk.

Raw sprouts
There have been too many recent outbreaks of raw sprouts lately, emphasizes Marler. In order to avoid being exposed to the risk of contamination by raw sprouts, people should rather forego this food in his opinion. If sprouts were not cooked or roasted, I would generally advise against such dishes, Marler said.

Raw and uncooked eggs
Salmonella outbreaks in the 1980s and 1990s have shown that eggs can also be heavily contaminated with germs. Even if the risk of Salmonella poisoning is much lower these days, painters still advise against consuming raw eggs.

Avoiding some of the foods listed above may be a little over the top, but caution is still better than forbearance, according to the Food Safety Expert's conclusion to "Tech Times."