is it safe to eat cold leftover pork,beef,gammon ??

[_jellybean_]

I would heat it up first, but I worry about these things more than most people. xoxo

 

[icklemonster]

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...

 

[VTBaby]

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...

That is totally fine. I just wanted to point out that what you posted was about cured meat, which is not what the OP was asking about. Curing is a preservation process. My doctor told me that leftover need to be heated to steaming. If your midwife instructed you differently that is fine. The OP asked for opinions and that is mine. Listeria is a very small risk but it is something that is very severe so to me a cold sandwich isn't worth the risk.

 

[patooti]

You simply can't assert this. With all due respect, it is incorrect information and shouldn't be spread around. Listeria causes no symptoms in people that do not have compromised immunity and basically no risks if you are not pregnant or seriously infirm. Even while pregnant the symptoms for the mother can be very mild. You would not necessarily know it was food poisoning.

Regarding it being more likely while pregnant. It simply is. That is just a fact. Sure you can dispute relative risk levels and the risk with most things is low. But during pregnancy your immunity is lower and you are more likely to become ill. The guidelines are not there because it is COMMON, the guidelines are there because on the off chance you become the unlucky one, the consequences include still birth or early infant death and it is entirely possible that there are cases of this that occur and people don't even know it was due to listeria. There is no need to be extra paranoid and there is no need for you to change your own behaviour it is extremely unlikely that you will become ill. However, I really do think it is irresponsible to spread inaccurate information without a disclaimer. Please consider that and warn people that you are simply comfortable with the small risk involved.

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.