Avoid food poisoning from meats with this simple guide

Posted on June 27, 2007
Filed Under Health |

Food poisoning cartoonI don’t know if you ever had the pleasure of suffering from food poisoning, but let me tell you, it is an experience I could do without. Not all cases are as bad but when it really gets you then your life is practically over for a couple of days as you spend all of it emptying your insides from any possible venue on your body. Did I also mention that a good number of people also die from food poisoning every year? 5,000 in the U.S. alone to be exact; in fact, more than 70,000,000 (that’s millions) people suffer from food posing every year in the U.S. which would be an impressive one incident every 2 seconds!

So, here is a simple guide that will minimize and even eliminate your chances of suffering from food poisoning.

First and most important of all, make sure to keep meat well separated from fruits and vegetables in your kitchen. Also don’t even think of cutting your salad and raw chicken on the same board unless you want the bacteria to have a party in it just before they rip your insides apart.

Second, make sure that you cook the meat well before taking it off the grill. Forget eating your stake rare or even medium-rare unless of course you want it to be your last meal before meeting with your maker. Using a meat thermometer make sure that chicken reaches 165 degrees Fahrenheit and beef 145F; ground beef should be cooked at a higher temperature of 160F. I mean lets face it. Ground beef is as bad as eating out of the garbage when it comes to the quality of the “meat” that goes in it. In addition, make sure that fish is cooked also at 145F.

Finally, let us come back to the vegetables. Just because that bug of mixed vegetables that you bought at the local supermarket says that they have been prewashed it is no excuse not to wash them again. There has been cases of bagged veggies enjoying a rather unhealthy portion of E.coli and you really don’t want any of that in your system. Turn on the taps and wash thoroughly once again to make sure that you won’t be making any unexpected trips to the E.R.

I hope that you find this simple guide to avoiding food poisoning helpful.

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