Statistically significant protective factors included the consumption of uncooked carrots, contact with any animal at or away from home, as well as dog and cat contact away from home.
Many of these crops were salad vegetables to be consumed uncooked and, as the farm operated a ' pick-your-own ' scheme, this clearly represented a risk of infection.
They then set about preparing uncooked breakfasts, because in the main the protective foods are uncooked.
Therefore, we took the commonsense step of putting uncooked, with cooked, gammon, off the ration.
One possible interpretation is that cacao was more often uncooked than was maize in these drinks.
People eating uncooked crops were at higher potential risk of acquiring contagious and/or food-borne diseases which is an important public health problem.
In fact, the spray or sprinkler irrigation produces bioaerosol, which can contaminate the crops that are likely to be eaten uncooked.
So it was necessary to raise the price of uncooked gammon within the ration.
