Salmonella-infected chicken anyone?

In the Guardian in 2019:

Brazil is the largest exporter of frozen chicken in the world, exporting $750m-worth of the meat to Europe last year. But about one in five of its birds are contaminated with the food poisoning bug salmonella. An investigation by the Guardian, Repórter Brasil and the Bureau of Investigative Journalism has found that thousands of tonnes of salmonella-contaminated chicken have been exported from Brazil during the past two years, including more than one million birds sent to the UK.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jul/03/brazil-one-million-salmonella-infected-chickens-uk

In 2022:

Only 3 years later, in Food Manufacture but nowhere else that I can see:

Effects of Salmonella?

Salmonellosis annually causes, per CDC estimation, about 1.2 million illnesses, 23,000 hospitalizations, and 450 deaths in the United States every year. About 142,000 people in the United States are infected each year with Salmonella Enteritidis specifically from chicken eggs, and about 30 die.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salmonellosis#:~:text=Salmonellosis%20annually%20causes%2C%20per%20CDC,eggs%2C%20and%20about%2030%20die.

Can we trust a Tory minister?

Then:

The daughter of a friend of the former agriculture minister John Gummer – who controversially tried to allay safety fears over British beef by feeding his own child a burger in front of the national media – has died from the human form of mad cow disease.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2007/oct/12/uk.bse

3 thoughts on “Salmonella-infected chicken anyone?

  1. Dr Prusiner flagged up the potential dangers that could result from the prion protein in 1982. His pronunciation, pree-on, didn’t last long or the attention that his work should have been given.

    Many of us in farming new that problems were building and that it would be within the dairy sector first and barley beef system shortly afterwards. These were the sectors receiving the most feed from the big feed compilers and we knew where some of the protein for the feed was being procured. Leather punchings from the shoe industry, chicken carcase. The chicken sector’s mortality rate was (is still?) so high that the living chickens couldn’t consume all their own dead, the surplus were ground up and went into pig and ruminant feed.

    Method of production needs to be scrutinised and regulated. A Reinheitsgebot for farm produce.

    Vegetable production can also be problematic and CO2 intense, again method of production is all important.

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  2. I don’t buy any kind of chicken unless it has a saltire plastered on it. Then, if I am unfortunate enough to end up with salmonella, it’s the SNP’s fault.

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