Turkey meat producer announces a second recall
 

:type: Cargill Meat Solutions Corp. has announced for the second time in less than six weeks a voluntary recall of ground turkey products after tests found they were contaminated with a strain of salmonella bacteria that can prove fatal. "That's one of the challenges and frustrations about trying to get one's arms around a naturally and randomly occurring bacterium that exists throughout the environment," said Mike Martin, director of communications for the company in Wichita, Kansas.
"It is frustrating but it strengthens our resolve to also do more to find additional methods and measures that are going to further reduce the potential for pathogens that can cause food-borne illnesses."
The latest recall, of 185,000 pounds of ground turkey meat, was announced Sunday for products produced August 23 and 24, and 30 and 31 from the company's establishment in Springdale, Arkansas.
No illnesses have been linked to the current recall.


http://www.cnn.com/2011/HEALTH/09/12/turkey.recall/

Dear Forum Members

Regardless of what food production companies or government officials say, usually when contamination enters food production it is caused by slack practices, which are not necessarily illegal.

For example, cutting corners on decontamination processes or sourcing raw or uncooked stock from unaccredited (unregistered) producers, practices which are all primarily designed to save money.

As you may know, there was an outbreak of New Variant CJD (aka Spongy Brain), in the 1990's, in the UK which was caused by BSE in cattle.

http://www.cjdsupport.net/UserFiles/...opy%20vcjd.pdf

Although the government will never admit it, BSE in cattle stemmed from the practice of feeding the animals feed made from other dead cattle. In other words, an animal (the cow) which evolution had made into a vegetarian man had turned into a cannibal.

Also, the farming industry, prior to the BSE epidemic in cattle, lobbied the "government of the day" to relax the rules on decontaminating and processing cattle feed made from dead cattle, in order to save money. The farming industry backed up by scientific evidence could not see anything wrong with this cannibalistic feed being under processed.

The farmers got their wish, cattle got BSE and youngsters got nvCJD and died.

The moral of this sad story is: Don't let the food industry cut corners because if they do people will die.



UK Bob