Posted on 02/03/2016 3:00:03 AM PST by afraidfortherepublic
In the aftermath of an E. coli outbreak at Chipotle that sickened dozens of people across the United States last fall and led to an overhaul of the company's food safety practices, Americans reacted by avoiding the beloved fast-food chain. Restaurants that once sported long lines were suddenly empty, a phenomenon that was almost surely happening nationwide.
The risks, in other words, were simply too great in people's minds for them to continue frequenting the Mexican-inspired favorite, because Chipotle had a food safety problem.
But the outrage was at least partly misplaced, according to Bill Marler, a lawyer specializing in food-borne illness. The outbreak, he says, was less of an anomaly specific to the chain than a symptom of the American food system, which isn't as safe as it could be and really should be.
Marler, who has been involved in many high-profile outbreaks over the past 30 years, including the 1993 E. coli outbreak at Jack in the Box, which killed several children and forced the government to impose zero tolerance for the presence of the pathogen in food, says that problems such as the one at Chipotle are far more common than most people realize. ~snip~ In 2014, the most recent year for which data is available, more than 8,000 food products were recalled by the Food and Drug Administration, and nearly 100 were recalled by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The problem touches organic foods, too.
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In a recent piece, published in Bottom Line Health, he lists six foods he no longer eats, because he believes the risk of eating them is simply too large. The list includes raw oysters and other raw shellfish, raw or under-cooked eggs, meat that isn't well-done, unpasteurized milk and juice, and raw sprouts.
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I have a PartyQ and it’s great.
I tried the Cowboy charcoal. Once. Too smokey.
We have a good supply of Royal Oak available and I like it very much.
For special cooks I add Kamado Joe which is available at the Big Sky Ace Hardware store (35 miles) and is a pleasant drive.
Big Green Egg charcoal is available in town as well...
I’m grilling some chops for dinner tonight. Yum!
I made Valencia paella... the wife is scrounging for more as we speak. ;-) Takes a bit of work, but... hard to beat. Chicken, Choritzo, mussels, shrimp and squid as the protiens. Sugar snap peas and green beans as the greens. 2 tomatoes and arborio rice not made risotto, just cooked regular. Sweet Spanish paprika, thyme saffron and garlic as the spice base. Eat it drizzled on French baguettes with a drizzle of olive oil... YUM!
Rare steak and runny eggs. Marry me!
Haha, sure. ;) Sounds like a match made in food heaven.
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