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The Chilling Reality Of Listeria Contamination In Frozen Foods
It’s easy to understand the importance of washing fresh produce and following standard kitchen safety rules when cooking with raw meat, but we don’t typically think of frozen foods as hotbeds for bacterial contamination. Recent studies, however, have shown that listeria bacteria have the ability to live on frozen foods — including vegetables and hot dogs — during long-term storage. Listeria is a genus of bacteria, and Listeria monocytogenes is a particularly harmful pathogen described by the Food and Drug Administration as “a type of disease-causing bacteria that can be found in many places, including soil, water, sewage, rotting vegetation, and animals.”
Freezing food doesn’t kill most bacteria on it, but doing so can hinder bacteria from multiplying. What makes listeria so dangerous is its ability to multiply in temperatures exceeding 0 degrees Fahrenheit (the average home freezer temperature). The bacteria can spread through water, dirt, and even open air, making it easy for contamination to occur during food processing. Symptoms of non-invasive listeriosis (listeria infection) include gastrointestinal symptoms, muscle aches, and fever. Invasive listeriosis is far more serious and can cause convulsions and death, especially in vulnerable populations.
If you would like more information about what’s happening in Oregon, please FReepmail me. Please send me your name by FReepmail if you want to be on this list. I found no thrill🎶🫐
on Blueberry Hill.🎶🫐
On Blueberry Hill.🎶🫐
Before I got sick.🎶🫐
It keeps listeria at bay.
Seriously, listeria is the big bad one that no food company wants to get hit with.
Take this recall seriously.
I highly recommend these organic blueberries also from Oregon. Expensive, but worth it if you eat them as sparingly as I do. I get them at the local health food store.
https://www.stahlbush.com/product/organic-blueberries-3lbs/