WASHINGTON D.C.: Technology to make beef safer - (Washington Post)
December 27, 2007 – 6:36 pmHarry F. Hull, a consultant to the Minnesota Beef Council, which favors beef irradiation, and based in St. Paul, Minn., writes regarding the Dec. 21 Business article “Beef’s Wake-Up Recall” to say that the Agriculture Department must do more than rethink safety rules for ground beef. The current system is designed to reduce, not eliminate, E. coli and other hazardous bacteria. We’re still eating hamburger contaminated with deadly germs, and our children are getting sick and dying.
Improved processing has reduced positive samples to 0.2 percent, but that means that 1 in 500 pounds of raw ground beef contains E. coli. Recalls are not particularly effective. On Dec. 20, the Agriculture Department ordered the recall of meat contaminated with drug-resistant salmonella that had been sold between Sept. 19 and Nov. 5. How much of that remained uneaten?
More thorough cleaning, additional testing and more frequent inspections might conceivably cut contamination in half, […]
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