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Can you get food poisoning off touching a kitchen tap?
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No: Not unless the tap is infected.
Answered 10/3/2016
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Unlikely: Although some organisms responsible for gastrointestinal infection may reside in water on a kitchen tap you would have to have your mouth on the tap and be swallowing large amounts of material containing organisms in order to be infected. This is very unlikely.
Answered 12/13/2014
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