Soft cheese
Pasteurization, the process that heats cheese to a temperature that will kill illness-causing bacteria, makes cheese safer, but many cheeses are not pasteurized.
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Raw Oysters
Oysters are another risky food because people want to eat them raw.
Toxins in Tuna
The big problem with tuna is not mercury, but a naturally occurring toxin called scombrotoxin.
Eggs and Salmonella
Contamination in eggs is almost always because of the bacteria salmonella
Spinach and Other Greens
The FDA found spinach to be the vegetable most frequently contaminated with the most potent pesticides used on food.
Potatoes
Potatoes are one of the most popular vegetables, but they also rank among the most contaminated with pesticides and fungicides.
Peaches and Nectarines
Forty-five different pesticides are regularly applied to succulent, delicious peaches and nectarines in conventional orchards.
Antibiotic-Laced Meat
An FDA report released in February found that 81 percent of the raw ground turkey tested was contaminated with antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
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