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I would heat it up first, but I worry about these things more than most people. xoxo
Just checked out the NHS website if that helps and you should be fine if in the UK. I don't know what advice you're following, but DH and I both agreed at the beginning of this pregnancy to follow the NHS to the word as there is so much conflicting advice out there and being British, this is most relevant to us. (Below copied and pasted from https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/pregnancy-and-baby/pages/foods-to-avoid-pregnant.aspx#cured )
Cold cured meats
Cold cured meats include salami, parma ham, chorizo and pepperoni. Some countries advise pregnant women to avoid eating cold cured meats or smoked fish as there is a small risk of these foods harbouring listeria, or the toxoplasma parasite that causes toxoplasmosis. Currently in the UK we don't advise pregnant women to avoid these products. However, if you are at all concerned, you might choose to avoid cured meats and smoked fish while you are pregnant.
The Food Standards Agency is reviewing its toxoplasmosis and listeria advice to vulnerable groups, including pregnant women, and we'll post the reviewed advice on this page as soon as it's available.
Find out about healthy eating in pregnancy, including healthy snacks.
Roasted pork would not be a cured meat. I wouldn't eat it unless it was reheated. Listeria is horrible and to me not worth the risk. There is already so much risk in the food supply so why take even more risk?
Just checked out the NHS website if that helps and you should be fine if in the UK. I don't know what advice you're following, but DH and I both agreed at the beginning of this pregnancy to follow the NHS to the word as there is so much conflicting advice out there and being British, this is most relevant to us. (Below copied and pasted from https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/pregnancy-and-baby/pages/foods-to-avoid-pregnant.aspx#cured )
Cold cured meats
Cold cured meats include salami, parma ham, chorizo and pepperoni. Some countries advise pregnant women to avoid eating cold cured meats or smoked fish as there is a small risk of these foods harbouring listeria, or the toxoplasma parasite that causes toxoplasmosis. Currently in the UK we don't advise pregnant women to avoid these products. However, if you are at all concerned, you might choose to avoid cured meats and smoked fish while you are pregnant.
The Food Standards Agency is reviewing its toxoplasmosis and listeria advice to vulnerable groups, including pregnant women, and we'll post the reviewed advice on this page as soon as it's available.
Find out about healthy eating in pregnancy, including healthy snacks.
Roasted pork would not be a cured meat. I wouldn't eat it unless it was reheated. Listeria is horrible and to me not worth the risk. There is already so much risk in the food supply so why take even more risk?
The NHS site, nor my midwife has said that a food to avoid when pregnant is cooked meat which has been stored in a fridge though either? I have just checked the stats, in the UK there were 17 cases of listeria in pregnant women in 2010 and over 700,000 live births, this makes the chance of getting it something like 1 in 40,000?! Still I won't eat what they tell me not to, as I said I'm following their advice and until I see on the Nhs site that thoroughly cooked meat stored in a fridge is a risk I'll continue to eat it...
lol - I'm 39 and never once gotten listeria or any other kind of food poisoning. Use common sense and you'll be fine. I highly doubt it's suddenly going to happen because I'm pregnant. Based on NHS guidelines I should be dead 100 times over or at least constantly hospitalized.