[rconti]

No source, but I've simply never gotten sick from food my entire life (excluding alcohol!)

Definitely make sure you cook ground beef, pork, chicken all the way through. Many things like whole beef and fish will really only have bacteria on the outside so it's not particularly important how throughly you cook it. (that's not to encourage people to not try, but to encourage them to not be scared of 'messing up'.)