My Fruitive Challenge: Day 158 — Poisoned: The Dirty Truth About Your Food

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 Foods to Avoid with a History of Contamination as documented in the film

  • Ground burger: needs to be cooked at 155 degrees internal temperature; order to temperature—if they can’t then order something else 
  • Chicken (salmonella): 1 in 4 meat products contaminated; the producers tested 29% of their Perdue brands samples were contaminated; salmonella is still legally allowed in most chicken products in the USA
  • Romaine lettuce (E coli): especially bagged
  • Cut Fruit
  • Caramel Apples
  • Tomatoes 
  • Onions
  • Cookie dough
  • Similac 
  • Lucky Charms 
  • JIF Peanut Butter
  • Cake mix
  • Cantaloupe: especially the outside because once the knife cuts through the skin it contaminates the inside of the fruit
  • Sprouts 
  • Bagged lettuce (all the outbreaks involved triple washed and bagged); wash your own single head of lettuce 
  • Raw fish, oysters
  • Any menu item with a disclaimer that says consumption of undercooked meat can expose you to meat 

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