Food safety alert for US consumers.
4 Aug 2014 20:20:40 UTC
Topic 197665
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Just announced, "Due to rising costs of processing chicken in America by American workers; processed chicken in America will now be sent to China for processing, and then sent back to the US to be sold."
China's food handling methods are poor at best; with things like lead showing up in food. Also, locally in China, rat meat has been sold as lamb.
Do we really want China processing our chicken and then have increased salmonella outbreaks??? I think NOT!!!
Further, chicken processed in China and sold here in the US will NOT be identified as being processed in China. Therefore, I believe a boycott of processed, frozen chicken is in order. I for one do NOT want my chicken processed in China!
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Food safety alert for US consumers.
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Can you please provide a link to a RECENT (within the last 6 months) article/source to VALIDATE your information?
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Link as requested :)
Fresh chicken is NOT at issue; ONLY the packaged frozen chicken is at issue. ...and, apparently, canned soups... :-(
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Thank you for providing the link.
After reading the article, following the embedded links and doing a bit more research, it appears the export/import of processed/frozen chicken has not started as of yet. Sometimes the US government and the three-letter agencies that are supposed to watch out for us consumers do NOT always tell the truth.
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I would say they 'Seldom' tell the truth nowadays (
Bill
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For poultry the key issue is Salmonella species ( the category that gave the world Typhoid ) which is always a challenge as they are naturally co-adapted. For human consumption this requires considerable care to prevent contamination ie. expense at the farm and in the handling facilities. The painful historical lesson is that cheap is always dirty, alas. The worst hit, as always, would be the kids and the elderly with fulminant sepsis ( blood poisoning ) outside of the bowel after ingestion. I have seen it a few times and it is quite ugly, and much more than mere belly symptoms. As an illness it is in my 'fast mover' category and comparable with meningitis, say.
Safety always costs, but more to the point : what is the cost of not being careful ? These lessons are so old. Microbiology 101 really.
Cheers, Mike.
( edit ) 'These lessons are so old' : to be exact if you were a medical student and did not get this stuff right, you would be failed.
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