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For many years, market pork was fed "slop" besides a conventional pork production diet (corn and rye), and there was a very real chance that the meat contained a parasite that could cause a disease known as trichinosis. Only thorough cooking could destroy it. Today, there is almost nil chance of contracting trichinosis from pork, but partially from habit, and partially because most people do not like the taste of undercooked pork, it is still widely cooked to the "fully white" stage.

There is also the same risk of contracting salmonella from pork that there is from any other processed food product that has been improperly handled, but no more or less. The most common cause of salmonella poisoning is probably poorly handled eggs.

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