Sounds like natural selection to me.
Thought I would post this alert I got from from Consumer Reports...
Dear Al,
As shoppers head to the store this week to buy Thanksgiving turkey, an outbreak of a deadly, drug-resistant strain of Salmonella in turkey continues to sicken consumers across the nation.
Yet neither the turkey industry nor the USDA has publicly released any details about which turkey producers or brands are part of this outbreak that has hospitalized 63 people and killed one.
Join with us in calling for a public listing of turkey producers and brands involved in this outbreak. This is critical health information consumers should have before Thanksgiving!
This outbreak of Salmonella in raw turkey products has been going on for a year, and is linked to 164 illnesses in 35 states. One person in California died, and available information indicates that almost half of those getting sick are hospitalized. The tainted turkey has even been found in pet food.
The CDC says the outbreak strain, called Salmonella Reading, has been found in live turkeys and many kinds of raw turkey products, ‘indicating it might be widespread in the turkey industry.’
Federal officials have shared their findings with the turkey industry, and ‘asked about steps that may be taken’ to reduce contamination. But they haven’t told the public which producers, suppliers, or brands of turkey could be contaminated.
Help us urge the USDA to tell consumers right now which turkey brands are involved in the outbreak.
Click through after taking action to see advice on how to safely prepare your Thanksgiving turkey. Please send your message to the USDA, then share this with family and friends so as many of us as possible are pushing to get this critical information.
Thank you!
Meg Bohne
Consumer Reports
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Sounds like natural selection to me.
only the vegetarians survive to reproduce?
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In Canada they recall products and send out alerts when food is likely to be contaminated.I think it's the law.
Well technically they are supposed to do that here in the USA and usually do. I think they may be dragging their feet here because this Holiday is immensely important economically. They may be hoping its resolved quietly to avoid $losses. Thats about the only thing I can think of as to why they are handling this as they are
Al
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Saw this topic on ABC news this morning. They claim not to know the source of the problem, beyond it being from turkeys. That's a hard one for me to swallow.
Better not undercook it then!
The slightly extra crispy Thanksgiving Turkey is starting to sound like a better option to be on the safe side.
OR is this a scary situation for some where an alternative main course may be in the works.
...Ralph
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I shall eat chicken.
Mama Bear
You know if people would only use COMMON SENSE and use a thermometer to check the turkey
and cook it to 165F there would be know problem. Same can be said for hamburger and chicken.
Jay
vegemite sandwiches mate...who wouldn't be thankful for them
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The real problem here isnt that theres salmonella contamination with the turkeys.Its that theres a very large degree of drug resistence showing up.
https://www.cdc.gov/salmonella/reading-07-18/index.htmlWGS analysis did not identify predicted antibiotic resistance in 116 isolates from 53 ill people and 63 food and animal samples. However, 68 isolates from ill people and 84 isolates from food, animal, and environmental samples contained genes for resistance to all or some of the following antibiotics: ampicillin, streptomycin, sulfamethoxazole, tetracycline, kanamycin, gentamicin, nalidixic acid, ciprofloxacin, ceftriaxone, and fosfomycin. Testing of five outbreak isolates using standard antibiotic susceptibility testing by CDC’s National Antimicrobial Resistance Monitoring System (NARMS) laboratory confirmed these results. Most of the infections in this outbreak are susceptible to the antibiotics that are commonly used for treatment, so this resistance likely will not affect the choice of antibiotic used to treat most people.
Its kind of telling that the article says they didnt find the drug resistence like expected but the data they posted shows it in more samples than not so I am not sure how you can spin that positively!
al
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As Jay said above, cook it properly and no problem. If common sense was just a little more common.
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