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10 ways to prevent food poisoning The UK has more than 850,000 reported cases of people experiencing food poisoning a year, according to the Food Standards Agency (FSA). If you’ve ever had food poisoning, you’ll know how unpleasant it can be, even for a fit and healthy person. Sometimes food poisoning can cause serious illness and death. Most people assume that food poisoning comes from restaurants, cafes and fast food outlets but, according to the FSA, you’re just as likely to get ill from food prepared at home. ?People dont like to admit that the germs might have come from their own home,” says Dr Andrew Wadge, chief scientist at the FSA. But its a common myth to think that food poisoning only comes from a dodgy takeaway. Follow these tips to reduce the risk of food poisoning at home: 1. Wash your hands thoroughly with soap and hot water and dry them before handling food and after handling raw foods (meat, fish, eggs and vegetables) touching the bin, going to the toilet, blowing your nose or touching animals (including pets). 2. Wash worktops before and after preparing food, particularly after theyve been touched by raw meat, including poultry, raw eggs, fish and vegetables. You don’t need to use anti-bacterial sprays. Hot soapy water is fine. 3. Wash dishcloths and tea towels regularly and let them dry before you use them again. Dirty, damp cloths are the perfect place for bacteria to breed. 4. Use separate chopping boards for raw food and for ready-to-eat food. Raw foods can contain harmful bacteria that can spread very easily to anything they touch, including other foods, worktops, chopping boards and knives. 5. Its especially important to keep raw meat away from ready-to-eat foods such as salad, fruit and bread. This is because these foods wont be cooked before you eat them, so any bacteria that gets on to the foods wont be killed. 6. Always cover raw meat and store it on the bottom shelf of the fridge where it cant touch other foods or drip on to them. 7.