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Most chicken sold in stores is contaminated, Consumer Reports says
Oregonian ^

Posted on 12/19/2013 12:04:43 PM PST by chessplayer

A report released Thursday indicates that just about all chicken sold in U.S. stores contains harmful bacteria, and nearly half are tainted with a so-called superbug that's resistant to antibiotics.

The Consumer Reports study, its most comprehensive to date on poultry, tested raw chicken breasts purchased at retail outlets nationwide for six bacteria, then checked for antibiotic resistance. The results showed nearly half of the samples were contaminated with at least one bacterium resistant to three or more classes of antibiotics, what's known as a superbug. Slightly more than 10 percent were tainted with two superbugs.

That finding is cause for alarm, said Urvashi Rangan, a toxicologist and executive director of Consumer Reports National Research Center.

"We're in a public health crisis," Rangan said. "Pharmaceutical companies are not making new antibiotics."

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TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: chicken; chinachicken; foodsupply; health; poultry; superbugs
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To: mylife
When I was a kid, they used to make Mock City Chicken. Does anyone remember that?

It was ground pork shaped on a stick to look like a drumstick and it was breaded and fried.

McDonalds stole the idea, and turned it into the McRib.

61 posted on 12/19/2013 12:51:28 PM PST by Night Hides Not (For every Ted Cruz we send to DC, I can endure 2-3 "unviable" candidates that beat incumbents.)
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To: Valpal1

That is why I buy Chlorox.


62 posted on 12/19/2013 12:51:56 PM PST by donmeaker (The lessons of Weimar will soon be relearned.)
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To: Travis T. OJustice

Some people would freak out about that bread stuffing soaking up bacteria.

Not me.

rip up old bread and dry it out, and chopped carrot, celery, onion, sage, thyme, parsley, rosemary, salt, pepper.

Stuff that bad boy and roast it!


63 posted on 12/19/2013 12:51:59 PM PST by mylife (Ted Cruz understands the law, and he does not fear the unlawful.)
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To: Zhang Fei

I bought a heavy wire gizmo that allows me to cook two beer can chickens.
I slather the birds inside and out with paprika blend, pour some in the beer cans and cook for 45 minutes on medium gas grill.


64 posted on 12/19/2013 12:53:04 PM PST by Eric in the Ozarks ("Say Not the Struggle Naught Availeth.")
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To: Dalberg-Acton
RE :”No one cooked the chicken. That was the problem. It had a crispy coating but wasn’t THOROUGHLY cooked. I had some severe intestinal trauma.”

Since I posted about cooking the chicken I thought you were saying that cooking doesnt work. I limit how much food I eat out, dont like salt or MSG or poly-hom-fats.

I once got food poisoning symptoms not from chicken but from antchovies sitting out on a not so cold salad (bar) , for lunch.

I threw up from late afternoon ~ 4pm through night with a splitting headache too (very unpleasant) , yet by morning it was gone.

65 posted on 12/19/2013 12:53:11 PM PST by sickoflibs (Obama : 'If you like your Doctor you can keep him, PERIOD! Don't believe the GOPs warnings')
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To: Night Hides Not

It was cheaper than chicken when I was a kid.

Quite frankly I often select dinner based on price.
You can make anything nice if you know how to cook.


66 posted on 12/19/2013 12:54:40 PM PST by mylife (Ted Cruz understands the law, and he does not fear the unlawful.)
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and= add


67 posted on 12/19/2013 12:55:17 PM PST by mylife (Ted Cruz understands the law, and he does not fear the unlawful.)
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And smell your raw produce people!
If it smells funky it is funky!


68 posted on 12/19/2013 12:56:21 PM PST by mylife (Ted Cruz understands the law, and he does not fear the unlawful.)
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To: All

Looks like youtube is down but this clip makes me laugh..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rU5mpwJ6GU


69 posted on 12/19/2013 12:58:41 PM PST by mylife (Ted Cruz understands the law, and he does not fear the unlawful.)
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To: mylife

3-4 meals worth of food right there. Roasted chicken on Sunday, chicken sandwiches on Monday and chicken soup on tuesday.


70 posted on 12/19/2013 12:59:58 PM PST by Travis T. OJustice (I miss you, dad. :()
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To: Travis T. OJustice

You forgot pot pie.
That is just before the soup.


71 posted on 12/19/2013 1:00:52 PM PST by mylife (Ted Cruz understands the law, and he does not fear the unlawful.)
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To: sickoflibs

I’m swearing off the chicken sushi after this.


72 posted on 12/19/2013 1:01:29 PM PST by Cyber Liberty (H.L. Mencken: "The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.")
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To: sickoflibs

I have read so many horror stories about restaurants and fast food places. I haven’t eaten at any of them in maybe 20 years except pizza. I don’t actually recall ever getting sick from them tho.

I do know that I never got sick from my Mother’s or my Wife’s cooking. I used to work at a large Summer retreat that served around 3000 people. The food was great but it seemed we had serious food poisoning strike about every Summer.

I remember the Summer of 65. The staff Dr. was passing out some kind of opium derivative in paper cups. He literally had gallons of it. I just remembered it was paregoric.


73 posted on 12/19/2013 1:01:58 PM PST by yarddog (Romans 8: verses 38 and 39. "For I am persuaded".)
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To: Cyber Liberty

I dont eat raw fish either.


74 posted on 12/19/2013 1:02:31 PM PST by sickoflibs (Obama : 'If you like your Doctor you can keep him, PERIOD! Don't believe the GOPs warnings')
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To: andy58-in-nh

All raw meat contains some level of bacteria. All bacteria are effectively killed by proper preparation and cooking.

Exactly.

This isn’t a chicken problem, it is a handling and cooking problem.


75 posted on 12/19/2013 1:02:37 PM PST by djf (Global warming is a bunch of hot air!!)
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To: Travis T. OJustice

I just mix a can of vegall, and a can of cream of chicken in with the scraps, adjust seasoning, put in a baking dish and cover with Bisquick.

Not as good as a real crust, but pretty tasty.


76 posted on 12/19/2013 1:03:37 PM PST by mylife (Ted Cruz understands the law, and he does not fear the unlawful.)
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That is one of my end of the world prepper recipes.

You can use canned chicken and powdered milk.

Why eats beans out of a tin if you have fire?


77 posted on 12/19/2013 1:07:23 PM PST by mylife (Ted Cruz understands the law, and he does not fear the unlawful.)
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To: mylife

**If it smells funky it is funky!**

Which includes most bagged salads.


78 posted on 12/19/2013 1:08:08 PM PST by Daffynition (Make Laura Bush's *Cowboy Cookies* for Christmas! They're GREAT!)
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To: djf

Most urban schools do not have home ec anymore and “health” class is all about free condoms and how to get an abortion w/o telling your parents.


79 posted on 12/19/2013 1:08:35 PM PST by Valpal1 (If the police can t solve a problem with brute force, they ll find a way to fix it with brute force)
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To: Daffynition

Cheese and fermented items tend to be the only exception.


80 posted on 12/19/2013 1:08:58 PM PST by mylife (Ted Cruz understands the law, and he does not fear the unlawful.)
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