Marinated or raw seafood (gravlax, sea urchin, bottarga)

Rare, but serious if it happens

Why

Marinating with lemon, vinegar, salt or sugar is not cooking: listeria and other bacteria survive, even if the fish was blast-frozen. This applies to gravlax, sea urchins, warty venus clams and bottarga, which is salted, dried fish roe that is never cooked. Thoroughly cooked fish and seafood are fine.

It changes after the birth

You can eat this again while breastfeeding: the pregnancy-specific risks (listeria, toxoplasmosis, salmonella) no longer apply after birth. Keep normal food hygiene.

Instead

• Oven-baked salmon
• Well-cooked prawns
• Sushi with cooked fish