E. coli Beef Missing Food Poison Ranking
Salmonella is paired with four of 10 foods in a ranking of the riskiest combinations of foods and illness-causing bacteria released this week by researchers at the University of Florida's Emerging Pathogens Institute.
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It's interesting to say the least that the list excludes Shiga toxin-producing E. coli and ground beef -- a combination so lethal that the federal government for years has employed a vast testing program to prevent hamburger E. coli outbreak. E. coli O157:H7, which doesn't make the institute's list, is the most linked pathogen to hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS), perhaps the most feared of a food poisoning outcomes.
The pathogens institute at the University of Florida said the combinations it chose are responsible for nearly 3.9 million illnesses, about 30,000 hospitalizations and 765 deaths per year in the U.S.,
- Campylobacter/poultry,
- Toxoplasma/pork,
- Listeria/deli meats
- Salmonella/poultry.
- Listeria/dairy products.
- Salmonella/complex foods.
- Norovirus/complex foods.
- Salmonella/produce
- Toxoplasma/beef
- Salmonella/eggs.
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The food safety hazard was created in October 2010 by Ohio Fresh Eggs LLC of Johnstown, Ohio. The company initiated a recall on November 5 after the Salmonella-positive egg tests were uncovered by the FDA during a review of company records. The records review was ordered after 13 FDA environmental samples from four egg layer sites at the company were confirmed positive for Salmonella Enteritidis..jpg)
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The FDA's Deputy Commissioner for Foods, Michael Taylor said this week in a letter to the New York Times that the anti-Salmonella inspection program is on track. "In response to the Salmonella outbreak that led to the recall of more than 500 million eggs, the agency will inspect all 600 of the nation’s largest egg producers by the end of 2011,'' Taylor said. These inspections have already begun, starting with facilities considered at highest risk because of past problems, he said.(2).jpg){kind=logo}
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“Recalls and outbreaks are the most public consequence of our ‘horse and buggy’ food safety system,” Caroline Smith DeWaal, food safety director at the nonprofit Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) said in a press release..jpg)
The Clearwater man was not mentioned by name, but Minnesota Health Department spokesman Josh Rounds said the man was one of seven who became infected with .jpg)
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As federal health officials have noted, public health investigations in California, Colorado and Minnesota were instrumental in tracking a four-fold rise in Salmonella Enteritidis illness this spring and summer to contaminated eggs sold by Wright County Egg and Hillandale Farms, both of Iowa. The two producers have recalled more than half a billion eggs
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DeLauro chairs the House Appropriations agriculture subcommittee.
