# Sushi-Any health risks?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sushi-any-health-risks/231932>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [March 1, 2004, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sushi-any-health-risks/231932 "2004-03-01T16:31:45Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![HPL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@HPL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HPL)\
**Post date:** [March 1, 2004, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sushi-any-health-risks/231932/1 "2004-03-01T16:31:45Z")

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Are there any significant health risk associated with eating sushi? I had some the other day and rather enjoy it, but when I mentioned it to my dad, he acted like I was nuts to eat raw fish and kept going on about how it’s not healthy to eat raw meat.

So what is the straight dope on this? I imagine that sushi resteraunts have to pass the same inspections as every other resturant in the nation(US) and if a significant portion of people were posioned by it, it would be all over the news. I know that raw chicken/pork isn’t considered good for you, so does fish have unique properties, or is there some other preperation going on that I’m not aware of?

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**Author:** ![In\_Conceivable](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/4bbf92/32.png) [@In\_Conceivable](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/In_Conceivable)\
**Post date:** [March 1, 2004, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sushi-any-health-risks/231932/2 "2004-03-01T16:41:08Z")

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