January 2, 2012 -bad news for meat eaters chicken samples contaminated

Animal Cruelty in Tyson Chicken & KFC
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http://www.aolnews.com/2011/04/19/more-bad-news-for-meat-eaters-chicken-samples-contaminated/
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More Bad News for Meat Eaters: Chicken Samples Contaminated

Apr 19, 2011 – 3:06 PM

Andrew Schneider Senior Public Health Correspondent

SEATTLE -- This is a rough month for carnivores and others who like eating safe meat.

Two studies, one released last week and the second made public today, have scientifically tested beef, chicken, pork and turkey purchased from groceries in six cities from Seattle to Fort Lauderdale, Fla.

What they found was enough to make a caveman queasy.

Food scientist Mansour Samadpour, left, and food safety lawyer William Marler are working to establish the extent of contaminated food through tests done by Samadpour's labs.

The latest study was conducted in Seattle by Mansour Samadpour, a leading bacterial microbiologist who heads the Institute for Environmental Health, a national network of food safety laboratories.

Samadpour's staff purchased 100 packages of chicken parts and fryers from 10 Seattle-area groceries during March. The analysis of these samples found that 65 percent of the birds tested had campylobacter, 19 percent had salmonella and 2 percent had E. coli or listeria.

U.S. Department of Agriculture inspectors at all slaughterhouses or processing plants watch for these poisonous bacteria. However, Samadpour also found that an alarming number of the poultry samples had a bacteria the government doesn't look for -- Staphylococcus aureus.

Staphylococcus aureus is a fast-acting toxin that often causes gastrointestinal symptoms within 30 minutes, and according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, it sickens at least 240,000 people a year.

Samadpour told AOL News that 10 percent of the samples had the even more concerning, and multi-drug-resistant, S. aureus, or MRSA. Handling contaminated chicken with a cut or break in the skin is a screaming invitation for MRSA to enter the body. Public health experts warn that bacterial resistance to antibiotics is a serious problem, as it often makes many diseases difficult if not impossible to treat.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campylobacter

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Campylobacter (meaning 'twisted bacteria') is a genus of bacteria that are Gram-negative, spiral, and microaerophilic. Motile, with either unipolar or bipolar flagella, the organisms have a characteristic spiral/corkscrew appearance (see photo) and are oxidase-positive.^[1] Campylobacter jejuni is now recognized as one of the main causes of bacterial foodborne disease in many developed countries.^[2] At least a dozen species of Campylobacter have been implicated in human disease, with C. jejuni and C. coli the most common.^[1] C. fetus is a cause of spontaneous abortions in cattle and sheep, as well as an opportunistic pathogen in humans

http://www.ask.com/health/adamcontent/salmonella-enterocolitis?o=15527&l=dis

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Salmonellosis

Causes, incidence, and risk factors

Salmonella enterocolitis is one of the most common types of food poisoning. It occurs when you swallow food or water that is contaminated with the salmonella bacteria. Any food can become contaminated if food preparation conditions and equipment are unsanitary.

You are more likely to get this type of infection if you have:

• Eaten improperly prepared or stored food (especially undercooked turkey or chicken, unrefrigerated turkey dressing, undercooked eggs)
• Family members with recent salmonella infection
• Had a recent family illness with gastroenteritis
• Been in an institution
• Eaten chicken recently
• A pet iguana or other lizards, turtles, or snakes (reptiles are carriers of salmonella)
• A weakened immune system

Approximately 40,000 people develop salmonella infection in the United States each year. Most patients are younger than 20. The highest rate occurs from July through October.

Symptoms

The time between infection and symptom development is 8 - 48 hours. Symptoms include:

• Abdominal pain or cramping or tenderness
• Chills
• Diarrhea
• Fever
• Muscle pain
• Nausea
• Vomiting

http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/news/050915_baytril
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Livestock kick a drug habit
September 2005, updated August 2009


"Just say no to drugs" was the message sent to chicken farmers in July of 2005 when the FDA banned the use of the antibiotic Baytril in poultry production. Citing concerns for human health, the FDA will no longer allow poultry producers to give their chickens, turkeys, and ducks Baytril-laced water to treat and prevent respiratory infections in the birds. That move reinforced the actions of McDonald's, Wendy's, and other fast food giants that have, in recent years, refused to buy chicken treated with Baytril and other selected drugs. Even the pork industry is getting in on the act. In August, Smithfield Foods Inc., the company likely to have supplied that glazed ham for your Sunday supper, announced that it would stop treating its pigs with selected antibiotics for growth-promotion purposes.
Where's the evolution?
But how does using an antibiotic on chickens and pigs affect human health, and what does this all have to do with evolution? At issue is the evolution of antibiotic resistant bacteria.
When a farmer treats a chicken flock with the antibiotic Baytril, it kills most of the bacteria responsible for the respiratory infection — but it also kills many of the campylobacter bacteria that naturally live in the chickens' guts. Ever take an antibiotic for strep throat and wind up with an upset stomach? You've done the same thing — killed most of your naturally-occurring gut bacteria!

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Sludge_contaminants
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Antibiotics (drugs that kill bacteria):
Azithromycin (Zithromax)
Clarithromycin (Biaxin)
Ciprofloxacin (Cipro)
Doxycycline (Doryx, Monodox, Vibramycin)
Enrofloxacin (Baytril)
Erythromycin

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20303077
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Significant differences in enterococcal resistance were also seen for tylosin, chloramphenicol, gentamicin high level, fosfomycin, clindamicin, enrofloxacin, moxifloxacin, nitrofurantoin, and quinupristin/dalfopristin. By contrast, aminopenicillins were more effective in enterococci from pig manure, and mean MIC-values of piperacillin+tazobactam and third generation cefalosporines were significantly lower in E. coli from pig manure than in E

http://www.naturalnews.com/030461_Senate_Bill_510_Food_Safety.html
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If you do the math on all this, you are forced to reach some startling mathematical conclusions:

The FDA is more dangerous than all the terrorists and terror events in the history of the United States.

The FDA has killed more Americans than the entire Vietnam War.

Even more than that, over the last 20 years the FDA has killed more Americans than the total number who died in World War I, World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the Gulf War and even the Civil War -- combined!

The FDA is the single most deadly agency that has ever existed in the history of the United States. It is responsible for more body bags, more funerals, more pain and suffering than even the Department of Defense!

The FDA does not value human life. It has no compassion for real people. It is driven by politics and money, and it answers to the demands of powerful corporations who control its agenda (http://www.naturalnews.com/019497.html).

So now, let me get this straight. With Senate Bill 510 we are going to hand over control over the food supply to the most nefarious, corrupt and deadly agency that has ever existed in the history of the United States of America?


Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/030461_Senate_Bill_510_Food_Safety.html#ixzz1iMZOBKrD

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Meat_%26_Dairy_industry
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Mad cow disease

In 1996, in response to the revelation that young people in Britain were dying from variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (vCJD), the human equivalent of Mad cow disease, the World Health Organization (WHO) issued seven recommendations. ^[48] Numbers 5-7 were recommendations for further research and 1-4 were concrete recommendations. The United States continues to violate all four guide lines; number one being to stop feeding animals to other other. ^[49] See also WHO.

http://www.canfightbac.org/cpcfse/en/cookwell/ask/left_out_fridge/
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Foods left out of the fridge and freezer

The Two-Hour Rule

Refrigerate or freeze perishables, prepared food and leftovers, within two hours. Discard food left in the Danger Zone longer than two hours. This includes food in the car, picnics, and food left on the counter.
Danger Zone is between 4ºC (40ºF) and 40ºC (140ºF). Visit Chill for more information



http://www.canfightbac.org/cpcfse/en/cookwell/ask/left_out_fridge/#51
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I left the fridge door ajar at about 11:00 p.m. last night. When I awoke this morning at 6:00 a.m., the temperature inside was 60 degrees. Should I throw away all contents or is it safe?

Most food held above 4ºC /40ºF for more than 2 hours should be discarded. This includes meat, poultry, seafood, hot dogs, luncheon meats, pizza, soft cheese, shredded cheease, low fat cheese, milk, yogourt, eggs, cut-up fresh fruit, fish sauces, hoisin sauce, opened creamy based dressings and spaghetti sauce, cooked pasta, fresh pasta, cream filled pastry, pre-cut, pre-washed packaged greens, cooked vegetables, opened vegetable juices. Opened mayonnaise, tartar sauce and horseradish should be discarded if held above 10ºC /50ºF for more than 8 hours. It's safe to keep hard cheeses, processed cheeses, can or jar of grated Parmesan or Romano cheese, butter, margarine, opened fruit juice, opened canned fruits, fresh and dried fruit, open bottles of vinegar-based dressings, bread and rolls, fruit pies, raw vegetables.

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