Noob question

[⋆ Beetroot ⋆]

I'm wondering, do cross-contamination exist in this game? Lets say I put raw meat with cooked meat, will me guys suddenly get food poisoning?

[Laurie]

No. In fact, you can stop food poisoning by surrounding your stove with hay floor since anything dirty cant spawn on hay floor therefore your cooking area will always be clean. Not realistic, but hey (!), the developers forgot about that

[dande48]

Yes-ish. There's a cleanliness factor. The dirtier the room is when you make food, the more likely there is to be food poisoning. Butchering animals will spill blood, which will add to the filth. On top of that, Butcher tables automatically have a -15 cleanliness penalty, so keep it away from the kitchen.

But if we're talking storing corpses next to prepared meals, no. Food-poisoning is set, the moment the meal is made.

[HunterSilver]

No. Food poisoning chance is determined at 2 points:
1) When the food is first generated (cooked, found, bought, etc.)
2) When food piles are combined

If you mix a dish with high food poisoning % chance into a low food poisoning % chance pile, it'll average itself with them, contaminating the entire pile.

Otherwise storing raw food and cooked food in a room together is perfectly safe.

Cook food in clean rooms with high skilled chefs to minimize the chance for food poisoning. The only way to be immune to food poisoning is to have a bionic enhancement that gives immunity or to have a xenogene that gives immunity.