Eating Lox salmon?

I did in my first pregnancy but then there was a listeria breakout in smoked salmon. I probably still would if I was at the Smokehouse and saw it all being prepared etc but probably not from a supermarket or restaurant where I don't know where it's come from 🤷‍♀️

The back and forth on advice on this has been confusing. I did eat it in my last two pregnancies (even though the advice was starting to come in you shouldn't last pregnancy and was that it shouldn't be eaten when I was 36+ weeks) but probably won't this pregnancy.

There's been lots of cases of listeria poisoning linked to it, so probably not worth it for me. If I get the craving for smoked salmon will got for the hot smoked salmon to be safe 🙂

I noticed you're in America but this is a UK group so advice may differ. The NHS have clear advice on this:

What to avoid
swordfish
marlin
shark
raw shellfish
cold-smoked or cured fish (for example smoked salmon or gravlax, including in sushi), unless it has been cooked until steaming hot

Am I right in thinking it’s not cooked? If this is the case in the U.K. it’s a big no because of the bacteria raw fish can carry

@Ceri-Ann there's actually mixed advice regarding raw fish. Often if it's been frozen it's as good as being cooked as it kills the bacteria.
But specifically smoked salmon has had listeria warnings for the last 14/15months. Where as previously pregnant women could eat it.

I think the advise used to be if fish had been frozen it was ok, but now the NHS have said it should be cooked through before eating. There is nothing in the NHS guidelines I can find that say eating raw fish is ok as long as it's been frozen. I think they've dropped this advice entirely

@Charley I wasn't recalling the NHS advice as people can easily access that.

I was referring to the science behind it- similarly to steaks that aren't well done. There's different thoughts behind it.

evidence based advised is still to avoid in pregnancy (hense the NHS advice) studies that claim it to be safe are very few and far between often with biased informations from the companies who produce said foods

@Ceri-Ann the post asked for thoughts. That's what I was sharing. We can all look at the NHS advice. And it's been laid out above already.