A food safety expert recommends avoiding six common foods in household fridges that have caused the most cases of food poisoning. The food safety lawyer has won many court cases involving contaminated food and suggests avoiding certain items that would be most likely to cause various symptoms such as stomachaches, vomiting, and nausea.

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Bill Marler is a food-safety lawyer. While people often recover from food poisoning in a couple of days, new virus strains can be difficult to recover from, and people with weak immune systems have more problems fighting the bacteria and viruses in toxic food.

The next report of the United Nations' World Health Organization (WHO) will include a list of foods that most often cause food poisoning. Here are some of them:

Raw/Rare Meat

Marler shares that he never eats raw meat, although medium-rare beef or pork is OK in restaurants. When the meat is not cooked completely at 160 degrees Fahrenheit it can cause food poisoning through bacteria in sicknesses such as salmonella and E. Coli.  

Raw Bean Sprouts

The food safety expert explains that he never eats uncooked bean sprouts. There have also recently been several outbreaks including one in 2014 that hospitalized 19 people due to salmonella poisoning, according to CNBC.

Unpasteurized Milk/Juices

French chemist Louis Pasteur developed the process of pasteurization in 1854. Companies still use it today to prevent the risk of E. Coli in products such as milk and juices.    

Pre-Cut Fruits and Veggies

This seems like a convenient choice. However, Marler explains that the more a food is processed the more toxins it is exposed to, which increases the chance of food poisoning.

Raw Shellfish

The danger is that oysters and other shellfish soak up toxic substances at the bottom of an ocean or sea, according to Tech Times. A person would consume those toxic substances by eating various types of raw shellfish.

Raw/Undercooked Eggs

Marler avoids undercooked eggs in part due to the salmonella outbreaks during the 1980s and 1990s. The risks are lower now but it is better to be safe than sorry.

WHO reports that around 351,000 people around the world die from food poisoning each year. In addition, in 2010 alone there were 582 million cases of food poisoning from 22 food-borne diseases.    

Here are some ways to avoid food poisoning: