How come these articles always want to examine the virulence of the E. coli's rather than the weakness of the Ms. Smiths.
ML/NJ
The FDA can’t handle protecting our food supply from contamination, why do we expect more bureaucrats to handle our health care any better?
‘At a chain like Publix Super Markets, customers who want hamburger made from whole cuts of meat have to buy a steak and have it specially ground, said a Publix spokeswoman, Maria Brous, or buy a product like Bubba Burgers, which boasts on its labeling, “100% whole muscle means no trimmings.”’
I recently had one of these Bubba Burgers, they were delicious, and the patty came in the shape of Texas. I used to think I was safe buying ground sirloin, but after reading this I think I will switch to Bubba Burgers.
Well truth be told two things are evident
1) cook your ground beef thoroughly
2)I do not buy that pre mixed ground whatever. I always buy a cut of beef and grind it myself -—tastes better; better for you
I’m not saying don’t buy ground meat at the supermarket, but I don’t. I buy it from the butcher who grinds the meat himself. One supplier, one grinder. This is not a guarantee, but I think you increase the odds of not getting contaminated meat.
I do not buy hamburger, I look for the cheapest cuts of whole meat pieces and eat that instead. E. coli can only affect the surface of the meat, it can’t grown on the inside. When you grind up meat, all of it becomes surface and thus can be contaminated.
Food preparation has a lot to do with it, also. E. Coli can get into the hamburger from the hands of the cook.
Are we being just a bit alarmist? Been eating burgers - rare - for better than half a century without a single problem.
b) don't leave foods out at room temperature for any longer than four hours cumulative; after that throw it away. This includes raw uncooked foods before cooking.
c) wash one's hands after a trip to the restroom for any reason.
Almost every foodborne illness I investigated when I worked with infection epidemiology came down to a breakdown of one of these three items.
Mmmm, right this moment I’m eating my own hamburger raised by us, taken to a butcher to kill who only had our beef at the time.
Don’t want to get sick?
COOK THE HAMBURGER! DONE! If God had wanted you to eat RAW meat he wouldn’t have invented fire!
Over 50,000 Americans a year are injured in bathtubs and a few hundred of them die, but so far I haven’t heard any calls to declare war on Big Plumbing.