They get a job as a commentator on CNN?
Posted on 08/20/2003 8:21:35 PM PDT by GinaB
What Happens to Recalled Meat?
By Brendan I. Koerner
Posted Monday, October 14, 2002, at 2:50 PM PT
Wampler Foods, a division of poultry titan Pilgrim's Pride, is recalling 27.4 million pounds worth of cooked deli products, which may be contaminated with the potentially lethal bacteria Listeria monocytogenes. What's going to happen to all that recalled meat?
Once consumers have returned their suspect victuals to the supermarket, the processed turkey and chicken products will likely be shipped back to Wampler's Franconia, Penn., factory, which produced the shady meat between May 1 and Oct. 11. The packages will be sprayed with green dye to make clear that their contents should never be consumed. The meat will then either be carted off to landfills, tossed into incinerators, or set aside for rendering into nonhuman protein sources—i.e., dog and livestock food. Listeria, which is frequently present in animal placentas, can be destroyed by subjecting it to temperatures in excess of 160 degrees Fahrenheit, so a long spell of industrial-strength cooking can make the recalled turkey pastrami and chicken breasts safe for canine consumption. (However, due in large part to the furor over mad cow disease, there are growing concerns over the wisdom of feeding tainted meat to cattle, regardless of how well it's been heated.)
Some stores may elect to destroy the meat on premises instead of holding it for Wampler's trucks, but they'll need an OK from federal food safety inspectors, who will monitor the disposal process. Given the nastiness of listeriosis, which is often fatal to infants, the elderly, and others with weakened immune systems, those inspectors will be monitoring the recall very carefully.
They get a job as a commentator on CNN?
*shudder*
Cows eat grass... what part of that is so hard to understand??
I don't like the fact that cattle feed contains meat... it's kinda Soylent Green-ish
Culinary cul de sac and gastronomical oxymoron, I just don't understand the names people come up with.
They no longer do, it was made illegal several years ago in the this country. The writer of this story is a little behind times.
I was just looking for sauce recipes.
I will now have a meaningfull discussions with all my remotes, once I find them.
Two words: "Taco Bell".
Catfish bait?? Perhaps that is what lends to the smell!!
*LOL* I have noticed on the container that it is "not for human consumptions"
who in their right mind would eat something that smells like sewage?
On the other hand, why do I consume fish that eat things that smell like sewage?
oh the horror!!!
Oh, I thought it was Micky D's.
Listerosis(whirling disease) is real common in livestock. Some lysteria is present in every day feeds such as silage, haylage, grain bins etc.....In nominal or normal populations, it is a normally ingested critter which your body handles just fine. This goes for people too.
The problem with lysteria recalls is that if they find any lysteria, that's a complete recall. If you cook the food, it's safe. If you eat a few million lysteria bugs in the course of a meal, no problemo. Your body sees it every day.
The potential problem is with non consumer cooked items like deli meats. Now real deli meats like good italian sausages, hams, proscutto, and provalone hang at room temperature in the open air. Thus no thriving lysteria population. The highest concentration of lysteria in your home is in your refrigerator. It's perfect conditions for lysteria.
You mean, "Gato Bell"
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