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BIRD BATH The FDA has approved a spray for baby chicks that reduces disease-causing salmonella. Called Preempt, it contains natural, beneficial bacteria that help the birds resist the salmonella...
Last week the Food and Drug Administration unleashed the war's ultimate weapon. It approved use of nuclear irradiation to rid beef of the mutant E. coli, as well as salmonella, listeria and other dangerous pathogens implicated in the millions of cases of food poisoning in the U.S. that cost some 9,000 lives each year. Dubbed "cold pasteurization" by the food industry, the controversy-plagued technology uses powerful gamma rays released by the common medical radioisotope cobalt 60 or streams of high-energy electrons from an accelerator. The bug-zapping power of the process is undisputed. The ionizing radiation...
Grade A poultry--which arrives at dining halls in vacuum sealed bags--is also cooked thoroughly to prevent the growth of bacteria such as Salmonella...
Developed by biologist Roy Curtiss III of Washington University in St. Louis, the vaccine is a weakened form of salmonella that allows the bird's defenses to fight off infections...
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Research Service in College Station, Texas, have also patented a mixture of bacteria from a chicken's gut that wards off salmonella in chicks...