Posted on 01/07/2009 6:13:36 PM PST by TornadoAlley3
ATLANTA (AP) — Health officials are investigating a salmonella outbreak that has reportedly sickened nearly 400 people in 42 states, but they don't know how the bacteria are spreading.
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Publix..like a lot of other companies use to rely on their integrity & quality/high standards.
They can't anymore, IMO, if they're selling this junk.
In the middle of the night I needed a cough medicine...and my husband had bought a Publix..brand TussinDM...
Can someone tell me why it specifically says on the box...This product is not manufactured or distributed by Wyeth Consumer Healthcare, distributor of Robitussin DM...
..but I can't find WHERE it is manufactured or distributed from?
I didn't take the medicine....and will try to return it in exchange for the real Robitussin DM that possibly is made in the USA.
Extra info: excerpts
Food perils greater in global society
Foodborne illness statistics are staggering. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimate that each year more than 5,000 Americans die from foodborne illness, more than 300,000 are hospitalized and another 76 million get sick.Globalization of the food supply, which enables shoppers to buy fresh fruits and berries in the middle of winter, also presents the potential of allowing pathogens from developing countries entry into our food supply. For example, Cyclosporia cayetanensis, a unicellular intestinal parasite not reported as a cause of disease in the United States until 1995, has recently been responsible for a number of significant foodborne-illness outbreaks related to raspberries imported from Guatemala. There was also a nationwide outbreak of hepatitis A related to frozen strawberries from Mexico, distributed from a San Diego company to 16 state lunch programs.
The Food and Drug Administration inspects approximately two of every 100 shipments into the United States. Perpetual staffing shortages and an ever-increasing workload prevent the necessary inspections that these higher-risk imported foods require.
The feds screwed-up the last outbreak——fearing they would insult Mexico——when it was discovered jalapenos from there were causing problems allover the US.
Nice move by the feds-—laying off Mexico served to destroy the US tomato industry......the problem stemmed from eating salsa.
I asked my supermarket produce manager to display countries of origin-—so we know where this stuff comes from. Told him I will not buy anything from Mexico or other Third Worlds........
Remember the Chilean grape outbreak few years back?
There’s also a problem with “natural” foods.
A little girl died from drinking contaminated Odwalla brand apple juice....which is not processed.
The company used fruit on the ground which had been contaminated from animal waste seeping in from a nearby cow pasture.
To this day, I will not eat shrimp in any form after reading a disgusting story of a purveyor who was prosecuted for selling contaminated shrimp.
I will not post the nauseating details.
Oh yeah. My son was 5 when the contaminated strawberries hit. He wound up in the hospital on oxygen.
That’s ten people a state. Is that really an outbreak?
...Produce, meat products, chicken, etc...are to be clearly labeled....
...BUT restaurants are exempt
The tomato fiasco traumatized our industry here in Florida....cost millions loss of revenue...
..and from what I understand those very tomato growers had been begging for 'country of origin' for years!...also the ranchers across the country.
That makes me sick---our own govt destroys an American industry to suckup to Mexico.
Did you catch the advert pushing Mexican avocados on us?
NO WAY will I every buy Hass avocados again....unless proven to be US grown.
Sorry to hear it.
How many have to sicken or die for you to call it an outbreak, huh?
Why the heck not?!
The label should say "Product of USA with ingredients from the following countries...."
That would be a start.
I have to travel to Texas next week, so I’ll be eating out a lot.
I’d like to know which states are affected as well.
More than ten in a state the size of Texas.
Now, if you’re talking about (say) Wyoming, which only has like 27 people in the whole place, that might be considered an epidemic.
I don’t “poke holes in threads.” That’s impossible, with my eyesight and the size needle I’m using.
I try more to poke holes in hysteria balloons.
Well, I understand that the CDC doesn’t want to start a panic. Heaven knows after what they helped do to the domestic tomato industry last year, they’ve got reason to be concerned. But if they want to track down the source, seem to me more info is better and would encourage more reporting both to and from docs.
Xenalyte, you are now on double secret probation.
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