As you might imagine, spending a career thinking about the food-borne illnesses that make people sick (or worse) would force a person to think about the kind of meals he puts into his own body.

Thats because every year, there are approximately 48 million cases of food-borne illnesses in the U.S., according to the Food and Drug Administration. An estimated 128,000 people are hospitalized for these sicknesses, and about 3,000 die on an annual basis.

For Bill Marler , a Seattle-based products liability and personal injury attorney who has worked as a food safety advocate in the U.S. for the past two decades, there are some innocuous-seeming edibles that wont ever make it into his grocery cart. The lawyer has represented the victims of major food poisoning cases against companies like Chilis, Dole, Taco Bell and Wendys, prompting him to come up with some very specific rules about the food he eats.

In a recent article published in his firms blog, Food Poison Journal, Marler listed six food items he refuses to eat. Check out the list and Marlers science-backed reasonings below, then ask yourself if you really want to go to that dollar oyster happy hour tonight.

1. Pre-cut and pre-washed produce.