Word: salmonella
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...Sunday evening, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced the recall of 143 million pounds of beef due to fears of infection by E. coli, salmonella, and mad cow disease. It was the biggest meat recall in US history, four times larger than the previous record. More alarmingly, the recall affected over 37 million pounds of hamburgers, tacos, and sandwiches served through America’s school lunch program, with the USDA sheepishly admitting that most of that total had already been consumed by the nation’s youngsters...
...private place. 7) Make a donation—a big donation. Make sure Harvard knows it’s from you. 8) Rub Hemp Granola crumbs into your contacts—temporary blindness trumps final exam. 9) Ingest several pounds of raw, room temperature cookie dough—if Salmonella doesn’t get you, queasiness will. 10) Poster gum yourself to the floor—claim physical and mental incompetency. 11) Get too friendly with the squirrels in the yard—rabies is the new scabies. 12) Have your friends duct tape you to the giant magnifying...
...wake of a series of scares involving E.coli-laden spinach, poisoned pet food and salmonella-tainted peanut butter and snack puffs, it seemed safe to assume that the nation's food supply wasn't particularly well-safeguarded. On Tuesday, Congress made it clear just how vulnerable it is, in a House investigative hearing that identified the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as underfunded, understaffed, and unprepared to ensure the safety of foreign food imports into the United States...
...also contain any number of pathogens, which is why most doctors consider pasteurization - subjecting milk to a short burst of heat followed by rapid cooling - one of the great public-health success stories of the 20th century. By eliminating most of the pathogens that cause disease, including E. coli, salmonella and listeria, they say, pasteurization has helped lower infectious-disease rates in the U.S. more than 90% over the past century...
...addition to shutting down production and disposing of existing jars, the company is cooperating with the FDA's inspection of the plant to figure out what went wrong. "A little deposit of salmonella growing inside a piece of equipment may have oozed out a bit of bacterial goop into the product," says David Acheson, Chief Medical Officer for the FDA's Center for Food Safety. He said that during the initial investigation of the outbreak, researchers considered - and ultimately rejected - the possibility that the outbreak stemmed from infected turkey meat or bananas, both of which were among foods eaten...