Posted on 11/16/2005 10:20:26 AM PST by kingattax
SYDNEY, Australia -- An Australian food agency is trying to quell fears about glow-in-the-dark meats.
In a statement released Wednesday, the New South Wales state Food Authority said the glowing phenomenon is caused by a harmless light-emitting bacteria that is naturally present in most meats and fish.
"While most of us would understandably be shocked to see our food glowing, it is important to remember that the microorganism responsible for the glow is not known to cause food poisoning," the authority's director general, George Davey, said in the statement.
The Food Authority receives around two phone calls each month from nervous consumers who have discovered glowing meats in their iceboxes. It issued the statement to allay fears about possible radioactivity in Australia's meat supply.
"There has been some speculation in the media that glowing food might have been irradiated, and I can assure consumers that this is definitely not the case," Davey said
Not sure (looking over shoulder)...
LOL. Just bury 'em deep enough to keep the flies from finding them! Otherwise, Grissom will be on your tail.
Thankfully, flies aren't a big problem here!
Cause the roaches eat them?
Yuck, do you think I live in a hovel?!
My recollection is that cockroaches are all over the desert SW.
Certainly not in my house...
Beats rats, I would assume. ;o)
Oh my!
Sounds like, well,
some things I've seen in poorly kept walkins.
You have a lot of those banana slugs up there, don't you?
Yep. But they move slow, so they are easy to catch. LOL
Why would you want it to glow in the dark?
I mean, it...
ah it,
hmmmmm,
I can't say that here.
LOL...good eating?
I most definitely would not want that! I would laugh so hard the guy would need therapy!
In a little olive oil with feta, yeah!
Well,
if it needs to glow to be found, it may not be worth finding.
ifyaknowaddamean.
Yummy...
LOL...very true indeed!
Ditto!
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