Cargill's antibacterial wash-resistant bacteria

[marmar]

from Grist:




Cargill likes salmonella-tainted turkey so much, they produced it twice in two months
by Jess Zimmerman

14 Sep 2011 3:30 PM


Is Cargill switching production to all tainted turkey all the time? We'd think the market for that wasn't big, but only a month after issuing a massive recall for salmonella-tainted turkey (associated with at least one death), the food giant is ... issuing a massive recall for salmonella-tainted turkey. You guys, I think ... I think it's a glitch in the Matrix!

Cargill implemented safety "improvements" after the last debacle, including the appetizing-sounding "antibacterial washes" (not clear if they're "washing" the equipment or the turkey and it's probably best not to ask). But so much for that!

Turns out, though, the antibiotic-resistant salmonella strain that caused the outbreak managed to resist Cargill's safety upgrades. On September 11, FSIS announced that Cargill is recalling 185,000 more pounds of ground turkey from its Arkansas plant, samples of which had tested positive for the exact same strain of antibiotic-resistant salmonella that caused the August calamity.

Apparently it only took a week for the plant to start pumping out tainted turkey. Never let it be said that Cargill isn't efficient.


http://www.grist.org/list/2011-09-14-cargill-likes-salmonella-tainted-turkey-so-much-they-produced-it

[Fla Dem]

1. Hey, but let's do away with all regulations and let these over burden

industries police themselves. I'm sure if there was no overpaid government bureaucrat breathing down their neck, those turkeys would have been as pure as the driven snow. :banghead:


:sarcasm:

[rfranklin]

2. If you ever drive by one of those factories you'll wonder why more people aren't poisoned...

the smell of the waste is so powerful it surrounds the plant for miles.