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Ex-FDA food chief issues 'do not eat warning' over breakfast foods potentially infected with H5N1
Daily Mail ^ | 10-16-24 | Sadie Whitelocks

Posted on 10/16/2024 7:19:21 PM PDT by dynachrome

A former FDA food safety expert is urging Americans to change their cooking and grocery habits amid a growing bird flu outbreak on US dairy farms.

California recorded its sixth case of bird flu in dairy farmers in just three weeks and 11 more livestock herds have been affected by the virus, bringing the total to 90.

While there have been no official cases of the H5N1 virus infecting people through food, officials could not rule it out in one isolated case in Missouri earlier this year.

In light of this, ex-government food tester Dr Darin Detwiler told DailyMail.com people should begin making some dietary changes.

He said raw eggs pose the biggest risk, so popular breakfast items like soft-boiled eggs, poached eggs, or dishes like eggs Benedict should be avoided all together.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Chit/Chat; Food
KEYWORDS: birdflu; chicken; egg; fda
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To: dfwgator

Hahahaha...

In the Summer of “75 right before I went into the Navy with my best friend, we were in my brother’s apartment which was part of my parent’s house.

It was about 9:00 PM, we were watching “Cool Hand Luke” and after seeing the scene where Cool Hand Luke eats the eggs, my buddy says “I could do that!” so we jump up and open the fridge, but there are only a dozen there.

We opened the door to my parent’s house and ran down the wide staircase into the kitchen, and found two dozen there. (That was no surprise to anyone who knew my mom)

We pilfered her entire store of eggs, ran back up the stairs with our egg booty, and proceeded to boil three dozen eggs...I think we probably agreed if he looked like he was going to make it, we would drive and get some, but I don’t recall!)

My buddy starts putting the boiled eggs down, and I thought “Wow, he might do it!” and he burned right through ten and up past fifteen before he began to slow down. He got to twenty, and they were going down hard, but he doggedly kept choking them down.

I think it was around twenty-five before it all went explosively wrong.

LOL. I have not thought about that for years...until tonight. I am going to text him this post...:)


21 posted on 10/16/2024 7:46:48 PM PDT by rlmorel ("A people that elect corrupt politicians are not victims...but accomplices." George Orwell)
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To: dynachrome

It appears that all of America’s food supply has been poisoned during Joe Pedo’s and Camela’s watch. Some of us think it’s intentional. Sort of like a way to cull the herd.


22 posted on 10/16/2024 7:47:26 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (I've come to the conclusion that the world is made up of millions of Three Stooges comedians.)
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To: Joe 6-pack

ROTFL.


23 posted on 10/16/2024 7:48:30 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (I've come to the conclusion that the world is made up of millions of Three Stooges comedians.)
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To: Bob434

I didn’t worry when I was young; but over the decades, food production has taken place on such a more massive scale than it used to be that I don’t trust quality control as much as I did when I was young.

You can pasteurize eggs at home, if you want to eat them raw or if a recipe calls for raw egg; it’s not hard or complicated to do.

(We used to be able to buy pasteurized eggs in the supermarket, but I haven’t seen them in years.)


24 posted on 10/16/2024 7:48:39 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: rlmorel

>> I think it was around twenty-five before it all went explosively wrong.

“explosively wrong”... that’s, like, poetic prose right there, man. Paints a picture and all. ROFL


25 posted on 10/16/2024 7:50:19 PM PDT by Nervous Tick ("First the Saturday people, then the Sunday people...": ISLAM is the problem!)
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To: dynachrome

Ex government food taster

Chris Christie joke


26 posted on 10/16/2024 7:51:03 PM PDT by TornadoAlley3 ( I'm Proud To Be An Okie From Muskogee)
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To: Jamestown1630

In Europe they don’t refrigerate the eggs, you buy them off the shelf at room temperature.


27 posted on 10/16/2024 7:52:32 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Bob434

R U in Texas?
Wastewater In 9 Texas Cities Tests Positive For H5N1 Avian Flu
https://kffhealthnews.org/morning-breakout/wastewater-in-9-texas-cities-tests-positive-for-h5n1-avian-flu/


28 posted on 10/16/2024 7:53:10 PM PDT by griswold3 ( Robespierre and Pol Pot were “unburdened by what has been” Harris the "Year Zero" candidate)
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To: FlingWingFlyer
Most bacterial and viral contamination in food is killed by cooking it.
29 posted on 10/16/2024 7:53:56 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear ( Not my circus. Not my monkeys. But I can pick out the clowns at 100 yards.)
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To: God luvs America

“people who are still wearing masks......while driving....by themselves....”

Ugly people, probably.


30 posted on 10/16/2024 7:55:32 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam (I'm voting for the felon with the pierced ear. )
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To: Bob434

Of course, cookie dough could be lethal.


31 posted on 10/16/2024 7:56:30 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam (I'm voting for the felon with the pierced ear. )
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To: dfwgator

That’s because they aren’t washed in some European nations.

Eggs naturally have a thin coating when they come out of the hen, which helps keep them fresh and protects from disease getting on the surface, and in turn into the egg itself. In the US, we wash that off, so the eggs have to be refrigerated.

https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2014/09/11/336330502/why-the-u-s-chills-its-eggs-and-most-of-the-world-doesnt


32 posted on 10/16/2024 7:58:43 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: dfwgator

>> In Europe they don’t refrigerate the eggs, you buy them off the shelf at room temperature.

They don’t use deodorant, either.
I don’t know what that has to do with the price of eggs in France but I thought I’d mention it anyway!


33 posted on 10/16/2024 7:59:22 PM PDT by Nervous Tick ("First the Saturday people, then the Sunday people...": ISLAM is the problem!)
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To: Jamestown1630

I noticed in Europe the eggs taste much better.


34 posted on 10/16/2024 7:59:30 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dfwgator

The bread is a lot better, too.

Mass production on the scale of a country like ours is often the enemy of flavor.


35 posted on 10/16/2024 8:01:57 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Jamestown1630

I eat bread here in the US, I gain weight.

I can eat all the bread I want in Europe and not gain weight.


36 posted on 10/16/2024 8:08:57 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dynachrome

Eat zeeee bugs!


37 posted on 10/16/2024 8:13:41 PM PDT by RckyRaCoCo (Time to throw them out of the Temple...again)
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To: dfwgator

I’ve heard others say the same thing.

I don’t know exactly why it is; but I know that some countries still use strains of wheat that aren’t as ‘played around with’ as the flour we use is.


38 posted on 10/16/2024 8:14:02 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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mark


39 posted on 10/16/2024 8:22:24 PM PDT by Bigg Red (Trump will be sworn in under a shower of confetti made from the tattered remains of the Rat Party.)
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To: rlmorel

Nor do I.


40 posted on 10/16/2024 8:26:15 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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