Poultry fingered as No. 1 food poisoning culprit

[Seneca]

Poultry fingered as No. 1 food poisoning culprit

ATLANTA – Cooking chicken on the grill this summer? Be careful. Poultry is still the leading culprit in food poisoning outbreaks, health officials said Thursday.

Chicken, turkey and other poultry accounted for 17 percent of the food-borne illness outbreaks reported to the government. Beef and leafy vegetables were close behind, at 16 percent and 14 percent.

The report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention covers outbreaks in 2007. Poultry was also the No. 1 source of outbreaks in 2006.

Salmonella and other kinds of bacteria caused about half of the outbreaks, the CDC said. Viruses — like norovirus — caused about 40 percent, mushroom toxin or other chemical agents were blamed for 7 percent. Parasites accounted for 1 percent.


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100812/ap_on_he_me/us_med_food_poisoning



When you consider how wretched the industry is, this comes as no surprise.

[patrice]

1. Who cares? We're going to show everyone what big Professional Lefties we are!

Nothing else matters.

Get used to it.

:sarcasm:

[TreasonousBastard]

2. Think it was any better in the past? Napolean lost more soldiers to...

food poisoning than to battle. Mozart likely died of eating bad pork, and around the same time botulism was common in German sausages.

More recently, we did have those pure food laws passed around the turn of the last century because everything was in pretty bad shape.

It's not easy keeping food clean, even on small farms.

(And I got sick a month ago from some romaine lettuce.)

[Itchinjim]

7. Yes, just read Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle".

Nasty stuff the meat packing industry before the USDA.

[Vickers]

3. The two times I got food poisoning were from poultry.

Damn that dirty bird.

:(

[Whoa_Nelly]

4. Earthlings

About animals as food...worth watching: http://www.unleashed.org.au/features/earthlings/

[Suji to Seoul]

5. I loves my Peking Duck, but the ducks I get are killed the day before

as is all my chicken, beef and sheep.

The fish is killed in front of me after I take it out of the water.

Food shopping in China is great!!!

[Warren DeMontague]

6. Cook the shit out of your chicken

and wear disposable gloves when handling it raw. That is all.

[Seneca]

8. I am not too chicken to kick 'un

[Edweird]

9. I like my meat well done so I've never had an issue except

rubbery overdone chicken from time to time. I eat a LOT of it. Every day.

[cynatnite]

10. We cook our food thoroughly and never have had a problem. n/t

[pipi_k]

11. One of the strangest ways I ever heard of someone getting food poisoning was

through pancakes.

A friend of Mr Pip's got food poisoning via pancakes at the IHOP.

the guy actually died...