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Your salad may be healthy, but it probably isn't the safest option when it comes to food poisoning
- After more than two decades as a foodborne-illness attorney, there are some items that food poisoning expert Bill Marler will never order from the menu.
- The foods Marler says are most dangerous aren't always what you'd expect.
- The food poisoning expert eats raw fish at sushi restaurants - but says there is a reason why you should consider skipping salad when going out to eat.
A deep knowledge of thousands of food poisoning cases across the US means that there are some things that Bill Marler just won't order when he goes out to eat.
With more than two decades working as a food poisoning advocate and attorney, there are simply some things that Marler has cut out of his diet. Marler has won more than $600 million for clients in foodborne-illness cases - and seen how restaurants are being forced to change to prevent more sicknesses.
"Chain restaurants, post-Jack-in-the-Box, they went through a sort of rethinking about how they do stuff," Marler said.
Today, many of the biggest risk for food poisoning at chain restaurants come from an individual worker who "picked his nose then made your burrito," Marler said. The action of a rogue restaurant worker can make a handful of people sick - but usually won't spark a huge outbreak.
However, there are some foods that Marler avoids when he goes out to eat.
Here are the foods that Marler said scare him the most on the menu:
