Another set of people I find weird are those people that eat sushi. How do they do it? The bacteria/parasites? Is it safe?
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Another set of people I find weird are those people that eat sushi. How do they do it? The bacteria/parasites? Is it safe?
The danger should be whether or not the fish used was from clean waters, whether it was cleaned properly, whether it was refrigerated properly, and whether or not the chef has good sanitary habits. If you have sushi at a well run sushi bar with competent workers and management, your risks are consequently low. If however you eat at any type of restaurant with poor sanitation, you run a high risk of problems, and those risks will apply to cooked foods as well as raw. Among the huge and dangerous outbreaks of food poisoning, many have involved cooked foods, many have involved just vegetables, and the largest number of cases have been with tainted water.
Well, considering the fish was probably swimming around in the ocean 24 hours before it lands on your plate I would say it’s safe enough to eat. Thousands of sushi restaurants attest to that and no one has died or got sick from eating sushi yet. Undercooked food is more dangerous than raw food for one reason: if it is supposed to be served raw, special precautions are taken.