Constant food poisoning - downtown DC

[Anonymous]

Food delivery is bad. I see people pick up what looks like 10 full orders and shove them in one trunk.
No way they can safely deliver all of that to 10 separate addresses and keep meat etc. cold.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Food delivery is bad. I see people pick up what looks like 10 full orders and shove them in one trunk.
No way they can safely deliver all of that to 10 separate addresses and keep meat etc. cold.

Any numbers to back this up?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:That would be weird. Why do you think it's food poisoning rather than a stomach bug? And have you started taking GERD medicine? That reduces your ability to fight off food poisoning, supposedly.

Omg. This is so true. It makes a lot of sense since it reduces your stomach acid production and/or pH thus your stomach environment is less likely to kill off bad bacteria. I had GERD while pregnant and was put on Prilosec. The GERD didn’t go away after birth and I stayed on Prilosec maybe another 2 yrs, and I was constantly getting violently ill/food poisoning/norovirus. Well, maybe not constantly, but like every 4 months. I went off of it and haven’t been sick sense and it’s been 14 yrs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Food delivery is bad. I see people pick up what looks like 10 full orders and shove them in one trunk.
No way they can safely deliver all of that to 10 separate addresses and keep meat etc. cold.

Any numbers to back this up?

Not PP but I have eyes. Most people I see doing delivery are migrants, felons, and very dirty and disheveled (suggesting drugs or mental illness). Why would anyone trust such people to have your family’s food in their private possession? Y’all are nuts.

What's wrong with migrants delivering food?

And how do you know they’re felons?

You’re the nutty one

[Anonymous]

I live and work in the same area, OP, and have not had a single instance of food poisoning in 20 years. I think you need to look at your own practices. Delivery and long hot walks, as identified. But also maybe there's a some kind of mold or other pathogen living deep in your fridge?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Our family has had more food poisoning the last two years than our whole lives combined, especially in the warmer months since we moved downtown. I also feel like we end up with more spoiled food from the grocery stores than we ever did living in the suburbs. Is this because we’re getting our groceries delivered or because we’re walking 20min home from Trader Joe’s with groceries? Or employees being careless with food safety? Also feel like restaurant food quality has gone so far downhill…

Anyone else in the same boat? We live in the DuPont / Logan area

Most food poisoning is from unwashed hands and unsanitary conditions due to bad dirty workers. Avoid those places.

That's one (racist) take. The other, scientifically supported take, is that it comes from industrial farms who irrigate with water tainted by runoff from feedlots. Because, you know, using clean water would cost more, and reduce big Ag profits. Much better just to sicken (and yeah, kill) a few people with e coli every year and keep investors happy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wipe down your refrigerator with disinfecting wipes, wipe down all the jars etc. in fridge, if you have food stored in plastic bags then switch the old bags for new ones. Make sure fridge is at a very cold setting. Wipe down surfaces in the kitchen. Have a family conference and discuss the need to wash hands after handling raw meats, wash the sink/implements, don't touch handles etc. after handling raw chicken. Stress washing hands as soon as you come home to avoid spreading germs.

Pretend we're back in Covid days until you quit getting these outbreaks.

Yes, but also, you might need to go deeper. The filters in the fridge can host all kinds of nasties, and you need to replace them, purge and disinfect the water lines, etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our family has had more food poisoning the last two years than our whole lives combined, especially in the warmer months since we moved downtown. I also feel like we end up with more spoiled food from the grocery stores than we ever did living in the suburbs. Is this because we’re getting our groceries delivered or because we’re walking 20min home from Trader Joe’s with groceries? Or employees being careless with food safety? Also feel like restaurant food quality has gone so far downhill…

Anyone else in the same boat? We live in the DuPont / Logan area

Most food poisoning is from unwashed hands and unsanitary conditions due to bad dirty workers. Avoid those places.

That's one (racist) take. The other, scientifically supported take, is that it comes from industrial farms who irrigate with water tainted by runoff from feedlots. Because, you know, using clean water would cost more, and reduce big Ag profits. Much better just to sicken (and yeah, kill) a few people with e coli every year and keep investors happy.

The big romaine crisis several years ago wasn't even runoff. It was contamination from dust blowing off a feedlot in Arizona.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:That would be weird. Why do you think it's food poisoning rather than a stomach bug? And have you started taking GERD medicine? That reduces your ability to fight off food poisoning, supposedly.

A”stomach bug” and “food poisoning” are two laymen terms describing the same thing: a pathogen that has entered your GI system.

Coming From dirty hands, dirty lettuce, dirty undercooked chicken, dirty hands that TOUCHED food that then went into your mouth ….

Found info that norovirus can be shed up to 2 weeks after infection and it's able to evade the immune system. I think e coli, salmonella, and listeria are more often considered associated with food handling, nora and rotavirus can come from surfaces, fecal and vomit particles. Article I found interviewed a doctor who caught norovirus from using a bathroom several hours after a person with the illness use it.

[Anonymous]

There was a thread here many years ago where a mom realized she hadn't had to refill the soap dispensers in the kids bathroom for ages. And then realized they weren't washing their hands properly, if at all. And that's why everyone kept getting sick.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Our family has had more food poisoning the last two years than our whole lives combined, especially in the warmer months since we moved downtown. I also feel like we end up with more spoiled food from the grocery stores than we ever did living in the suburbs. Is this because we’re getting our groceries delivered or because we’re walking 20min home from Trader Joe’s with groceries? Or employees being careless with food safety? Also feel like restaurant food quality has gone so far downhill…

Anyone else in the same boat? We live in the DuPont / Logan area

Why does this feel like a troll post written by someone who lives in some exurb and thinks that people get food poisoning because they walk home with their groceries? This is a ridiculous premise. People grocery shop all the time in rural areas, put their groceries in the back of their trucks, and drive further than 20 minutes.

[Anonymous]

I think this is a troll thread. No one just moved downtown with teens

[Anonymous]

In the same area. No issues here.

When shopping, I bring a cooler bag and a reusable ice block for things like raw chicken, sushi, or beef.

I’ve only had food poisoning twice—once from a place on New York Ave about 30 years ago and once from a neighbor’s tamales — and we eat out a few times a week.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here - i have teens!

Do you have pets?

[Anonymous]

Are you eating at dive bars?