There’s always a chance that you could get food poisoning when traveling in Sweden but compared with many countries, the risk of it happening is extremely small. Swedish restaurants and takeaway shops have to meet strict health and safety criteria in order to serve food, and even then they’re subject to regular checks. Getting sick from food shouldn’t really be a concern (especially if you’re planning to stick to restaurants) and you’d be extremely unlucky if it happened to you. If you want to be extra careful, give buffet-style restaurants, street kiosks and ‘after-work’ evenings a miss. Swedish seafood is usually so fresh that it’s completely safe to eat, but reports of people getting dodgy bellies after eating bad mussels and oysters are not unheard of, particularly at buffets