can you get food poising from chips ?!
Answers:
It depends how old the chips are, whether they have been cooked and left out for a night in the kitchen, or if they are frozen chips, or who has touched them.
It's very hard to get food poisoning from a chip BUT:
- if it has been left where an animal can licked it then it will be full of nasty bacteria
- if someone else with food poisoning as beet to the toilet, not washed their hands and has touched the chip then you will probably get food poisoning
- if they are frozen chips and the freezer has defrosted due to an electrical problem they it may be moudly, you would be sick but not really poisoned
- if you have been to the toilet & not washed your hands & ate the chips then you may have got food poisoning from someone else (by touching a tap or door handle?) and not the chips
- if a bad raw egg, old food, fish, meat have touched the chips then this is called cross-contamination where the bacteria will have been transferred onto the chips, if it's a bad, food poisoning bacteria then yes, you will get food poisoning.
If a fresh potato was used to make the chips, they were cooked and you ate them immediately with a fork (not using your fingers) then NO.
Chips are NOT high-food poisoning risk foods though.
there's two ways you can get food poisoning from chips..
- old potatoes, already fermenting and/or rotting prior to chipping.
- cross contamination with raw/cooked meat after chipping.
You can get food poisoning from anything
Not likely.
But if they are the olestra kind, you can sure feel like you got food poisoning.
No I Don't Think So...