Meat tainted with deadly bacteria is being sold to consumers, page
Pages:
ATS Members have flagged this thread 1 times
Topic started on 29-9-2010 @ 09:22 PM by Target Earth
Meat contaminated by a potentially lethal infection is being sold to consumers -- creating a public health threat that has largely flown under the the radar due to powerful industry interests and lax accountability at the federal agency in charge of ensuring food safety, according to recent studies and a prominent investigative journalist.

"It makes salmonella look like a picnic," is how David Kirby, an investigative journalist who has written about MRSA, a life-threatening pathogen, described it in an interview with Consumer Ally. MRSA (Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus) is an antibiotic-resistant staph infection that kills about 20,000 Americans -- more than the number of people who die from AIDS -- each year.

MRSA affects livestock and ultimately supermarket meat. Previously associated mostly with infections acquired in hospitals, nursing homes or by people with compromised immune systems, for the past 15 years MRSA is increasingly being traced to industrial animal feeding operations, so-called factory farms, where much of the nation's protein comes from.

A number of clinical and academic studies bear this out: a recent Canadian study showed nearly 14% of pork chops (about one in seven) and 6.3% of ground pork sold in supermarkets carried the contamination -- taken together, 9.6% of all pork samples. Additionally, 5.6% of the beef and 1.2% of the poultry carried the bug. The bacterium was also found in veal, lamb and other meats.

Another report, by Louisiana State University, found 5.5% of pork samples and 3.3% of beef samples taken from local supermarkets were contaminated. Yet another - this one out of the pork industry's lobby arm, the National Pork Board -- found MRSA in 3% of pork samples. That means a family buying raw pork twice a week brings MRSA home an average of three times a year.

See full article from WalletPop: srph.it...


www.walletpop.com...


reply posted on 29-9-2010 @ 10:16 PM by Target Earth
reply to post by remrem

I'm waiting for a string of Mad Cow disease, so I could wear my John Titor is right shirt(If I had one).


reply posted on 7-12-2010 @ 03:39 PM by unityemissions
reply to post by littlecloud


Yes. Which common sense would tell you it's really not that big of an issue for the majority of us. Then again, most people like to cook their meat thoroughly, so most of the bacteria is destroyed. Most people who come into contract with potentially deadly pathogens never even develop symptoms. It's usually a combination of factors, like genetic susceptibilities, and a poor diet, or much stress, or whatever else.

Unless you're touching this meat all the time and not practicing good hygiene skills like washing your hands directly after words, you're probably in the clear.
Pages:     ^^TOP^^



As Vaccinations Decline, Whooping Cough Returns
  Posted 14 days ago with 3 member flags
Operation Medicine Delivery
  Posted 18 days ago with 2 member flags
FDA Panel Recommends First HIV-Prevention Drug
  Posted 17 days ago with 1 member flags
Most Skitzophrenics are SANE
  Posted 8 days ago with 1 member flags