Word: salmonella
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...Dick Cheney] Here are those school-lunch regulations our friends at the Suspect Meat Council wanted you to take a look at, the ones about salmonella testing...
...George W. Bush] Are we going too far? I mean, feeding kids salmonella--isn't that an endangered species or something...
...Ronald Reagan looked both callous and politically ham-handed when he tried to save a few pennies on school lunches by classifying catsup as a vegetable. Last week the Bush Administration went beyond condiments, proposing to ax a Clinton Administration regulation that forces the meat industry to perform salmonella tests on hamburger served in school cafeterias. Given the heightened interest in the health of cattle right now, the move wasn't exactly well timed. The uproar forced Agriculture Secretary Ann Veneman to drop the proposal the same day it hit the papers. She said a "low level" official had announced...
...Salmonella, which causes 600 deaths in the U.S. each year, can spur reactions ranging from vomiting and diarrhea to death, with symptoms being especially acute among children and the elderly, whose immune systems are often unable to deal with the bacteria...
...guidelines, which it claims are too expensive to implement and result in an unnecessary waste of meat. In the year since the Clinton standards went into effect, for example, 4.8 million pounds of ground beef (out of a total of 120 million pounds inspected) were rejected because it contained salmonella...