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"Food poisoning is usually your own fault" - absolutely not. http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/03/the-most-common-sources-of-food-poisoning/386570

• dguido 10y ago
  Fair. At least in my own experience, I have succeeded in making myself sick more frequently from stupid decisions in the kitchen. I think this was part of the appeal of Soylent to me :-P.
• tropo 10y ago
  It kind of is your fault, though some products are defective by design. Food is normally produced outdoors being overflown by birds, and you know what birds do. You should simply assume that food is naturally coated in pathogens that you need to deal with. Never bite into food that isn't clean. Never slice it unless you will be cooking it afterward. You can clean by peeling, if this is possible without cutting. (bananas and citrus) You can clean by blanching, which is a brief exposure to boiling water. You can clean by washing with bleach, excepting the many foods (apples, cucumbers, etc.) that have been waxed to seal in the germs. Sadly, this normally means that raw apples and raw cucumbers are hopeless. Eh, maybe you can get the wax off with warm oil followed by ethanol. Realistically, you won't get these clean before cutting into them.