Will you get food poisoning from eating out of the food waste bin?!
what are you chances of getting food poisoning?
How fast until you see the symptoms?
What are the symptoms?
How long will it last?
Answers:
Best Answer - Chosen by Voters
Amazing! You may also want to check out http://ideas-gift.info/352865/waste-bins
http://ideas-gift.info/352865/waste-bins
Supermarkets throw out hundreds of dollars of perfectly good food every day. "Dumpster divers" or "seagulls" who take advantage of this free food use the same criteria you would use for food that you have paid for. If it has recently been dumped, and is still cold or even frozen, smells fresh, looks fresh, tastes fresh: then it is safe to eat, even if the "use by" or "best before" date has just expired. "Use by" dates are only very conservative estimates anyway. Fruit that has a bruise can't be sold, but remove the bruise and the rest is excellent. I've noticed that the little gummed stickers with the producers name are often used to cover up a small mark!
More and more, supermarkets give some of this surplus food to charities, soup kitchens, etc., or mark it down to half price before the expiry date, but most don't. Some even put their bins in a locked cage, to prevent anyone taking it: why?
In Sydney there is an organization that actively seeks surplus food from supermarkets, and distributes it to charity. this is the sort of activity that we should promote more often.
BTW the only time I've had food poisoning, and ended up in the hospital, was from some free sample sausages INSIDE the supermarket. I ate the sausage at 10 in the morning, began vomiting
about 1 PM(had no lunch yet) went straight to the hospital, and was there for 24 hours, mostly recovered by then.
Been there, done that, still alive!
Google "Surplus supermarket food for charity" and get sites like these:
#
[PDF]
National Food Charity FareShare launches new social enterprise to ...
File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - Quick View
individual company's need, the surplus food offered firstly to local charities through the FareShare network, followed where appropriate by commercial ...
www.fareshare.org.uk/pdf/FS_1st_release… - Similar
#
Fresh Food Rescue - Woolworths
1) Expanding fresh food rescue from Woolworths stores to food relief charities. Already, over half of Woolworths supermarkets are rescuing surplus fresh ...
www.woolworths.com.au ? Home ? Community - Cached - Similar
Depends on how long it's been in there.
Also, what else may be in there, raw chicken?
Give yourself a taste test, let me know how it comes out (or up).
don't do it.