US: Americans deserve better food safety - (AGWEEK)
January 28, 2008 – 8:01 pmST. PAUL– Harry Hull, of St. Paul, a pediatrician who served as the state epidemiologist for the Minnesota Health Department from 2000 to ‘06 and is currently a consultant in infectious disease epidemiology, writes that, A year of eating dangerously: 2007 was year of wake-up (re)calls for beef (Agweek, Jan. 7) should capture the attention of everyone concerned about the future of the beef industry. E. coli kills kids. It’s time for industry to accept that the processing methods currently being used for ground beef cannot achieve the level of safety that Americans both expect and deserve.
Beef producers and processors have made valiant efforts that have reduced, but certainly not eliminated, E. coli from ground beef. Millions of dollars have been spent to fix the problem. Current technologies - steam pasteurization, acid rinses and sprays - can eliminate more than 99 percent of E. coli in ground beef. The percent […]
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