Grocery store items to avoid

[Misfit]

From raw milk to sprouts to imported fish: food safety experts dish on what grocery store items they avoid - NY Daily News

Nearly 50 million people in America get sick each year because of the food they eat, and safety experts are now targeting a few prime store-bought culprits.

Last month, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a comprehensive report examining the types of foods that cause approximately 1 in 6 U.S. residents to suffer from a foodborne illness each year.

“Produce, which is a combination of fruits, nuts, and all five categories of vegetables, accounted for 46 percent of all illnesses,” Dr. John Painter, an epidemiologist with the CDC who conducted the study, said in a press release. “Meat and poultry, which is a combination of four categories, accounted for 22 percent of all the illnesses. Leafy vegetables, such as lettuce and spinach, accounted for 23 percent, the most illnesses for any one of the food categories.”

 

[frogman123]

Don't eat meat, veggies, or fruit and you will never get sick!!

 

[migtig]

Seriously, these so-called experts are idiots.

1) I grew up on raw milk and it never made me sick

2) I grow my own sprouts - or rather I make the giant do it

3) In regards to meat, the problem is the people cooking it. They are either cross-contaminating or they aren't cooking to the proper temperature to kill bacteria. You can't "eyeball" meat, you need a thermometer.

4) In regards to leafy greens and other produce, again the problem is people. What the heck are these people doing? Are they buying it in the grocery store and eating it right away? ICK. Wash your veggies folks. You don't know where it has been and who has touched it. Just ick ick ick ick....

5) Seafood - you should always try and buy as close to local as possible and never buy seafood from foreign country as they have different regulations and can have polluted water and overfish. This is just common sense. I would eat raw oysters here in St Mary's county with no fear.

Sounds like these experts are fear mongers and ignorant. Especially when an expert says in the article "There’s only one sure-fire way to guarantee you’ll never get a foodborne illness: just don’t eat ever again".

No, just use some common sense and don't listen to a government expert.

 

[Radiant1]

I would eat raw oysters here in St Mary's county with no fear.

I used to eat local raw oysters but not any longer. There's too much talk of how polluted the bay and rivers are for me to feel comfortable with it.

 

[vraiblonde]

Seriously, these so-called experts are idiots.

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Sounds like these experts are fear mongers and ignorant. Especially when an expert says in the article "There’s only one sure-fire way to guarantee you’ll never get a foodborne illness: just don’t eat ever again".

No, just use some common sense and don't listen to a government expert.

^This^

 

[DynaDink]

From raw milk to sprouts to imported fish: food safety experts dish on what grocery store items they avoid - NY Daily News

Nearly 50 million people in America get sick each year because of the food they eat, and safety experts are now targeting a few prime store-bought culprits.

Last month, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a comprehensive report examining the types of foods that cause approximately 1 in 6 U.S. residents to suffer from a foodborne illness each year.

“Produce, which is a combination of fruits, nuts, and all five categories of vegetables, accounted for 46 percent of all illnesses,” Dr. John Painter, an epidemiologist with the CDC who conducted the study, said in a press release. “Meat and poultry, which is a combination of four categories, accounted for 22 percent of all the illnesses. Leafy vegetables, such as lettuce and spinach, accounted for 23 percent, the most illnesses for any one of the food categories.”

Beer is the answer. Domestic, of course.

 

[Monello]

Then there is this little tidbit....

Tilapia eat anything (very much like prawns and crayfish) but being mostly vegetarian any substitute feed would have to be from a vegetable source. Enter chicken dung. Tilapia thrive on this readily available source of food and are grown worldwide below chickens, ducks and numerous other poultry. The chicken dung in the water is also an excellent source of additional nutrients for the plants.

Buon appetit