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Primrose Freestone, Senior Lecturer in Clinical Microbiology, University of Leicester

I'm a microbiologist and here's what (and where) I never eat

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Every year, around 2.4 million people in the UK get food poisoning – mostly from viral or bacterial contamination. Most people recover within a few days without treatment, but not all are that lucky.

As a microbiologist, I’m probably more acutely aware of the risk of food-borne infections than most. Here are some of the things I look out for.

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