Greens, raw milk and other products that are not worth the risk of poisoning

Lawyer Bill Marler, who has been involved in food poisoning lawsuits for more than 20 years, simply does not eat some foods anymore. The lawyer is conducting cases against the American fast food chain Chipotle, whose products contain E. coli and norovirus, popularly known as intestinal flu. Marler gave comments for an article in the publication Health Insider, telling which products he refused.

Marler has already won more than $600 million for his clients in the courts and confidently claims that the following products and dishes are not worth the risk.

According to Marler, in the last five years he has faced more seafood poisoning than in the previous two decades. Obviously, the warming of the sea water is to blame. The waters of the world's oceans are getting warmer, and the number of microbes is growing in them. They fall into the flaps of oysters, which people then eat raw.

The lawyer says that he shies away from such vegetables and fruits as from the plague. Convenience is good, but the more people touch and process food, the greater the chance of infection, and it's not worth the risk at all.

Poisoning with greens is quite common: over the past couple of decades there have been more than 30 outbreaks of bacterial infection, mainly salmonella and E. coli.

Sorry, chefs, but Marler won't order steaks with a weak roast. According to the lawyer, the meat should be fully processed at a temperature of 160 degrees — the only way to destroy E. coli and salmonella.

For anyone who remembers the salmonellosis epidemic of the 1980s and 1990s, this is not even a question. Marler believes that now the chances of getting infected from raw eggs are much lower than 20 years ago, but he still does not risk it.

Increasingly, you can hear calls to drink raw milk and freshly prepared juices, and supporters of this think that pasteurization kills the nutrients in the products. Marler says that pasteurization is not dangerous, raw drinks can be dangerous, because without proper treatment, the chance of bacterial, viral and parasitic infection increases.