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Anyone else ever wonder what happens to recalled meat?
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| 10/14/02
| Brendan I. Koerner
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 sourcesi.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.
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KEYWORDS: meatrecallpoultry
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posted on
08/20/2003 8:21:35 PM PDT
by
GinaB
To: GinaB
Anyone else ever wonder what happens to recalled meat?They get a job as a commentator on CNN?
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posted on
08/20/2003 8:24:59 PM PDT
by
Chad Fairbanks
(They can have my machete when they pry it from your cold dead skull...)
To: GinaB
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.
*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
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posted on
08/20/2003 8:28:37 PM PDT
by
PurVirgo
(Never fault a pig for having a shorter neck than a girraffe)
To: GinaB
I thought Count Algore asked for it to be recalled again.
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posted on
08/20/2003 8:29:40 PM PDT
by
Chummy
To: GinaB
"turkey pastrami"
Culinary cul de sac and gastronomical oxymoron, I just don't understand the names people come up with.
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posted on
08/20/2003 8:29:47 PM PDT
by
Bedford Forrest
(Roger, Contact, Judy, Out. Fox One. Splash one.)
To: PurVirgo
I don't like the fact that cattle feed contains meat...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.
To: PurVirgo
Cattle feed in America does not contain meat or meat by-products. The catfish food I feed contains plenty of the aforementioned and states specifically not to feed it to horses, sheep, cows, etc.
That is somehing those pesky Brits embraced. Much to the demise of their cattle and sheep industries.
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posted on
08/20/2003 8:46:30 PM PDT
by
dtel
(Texas Longhorn cattle for sale at all times. We don't rent pigs)
To: Chad Fairbanks
haha!
To: Chad Fairbanks
AW shucks, this isn't a cooking show?
I was just looking for sauce recipes.
I will now have a meaningfull discussions with all my remotes, once I find them.
To: GinaB
What Happens to Recalled Meat? Two words: "Taco Bell".
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posted on
08/20/2003 8:52:14 PM PDT
by
general_re
(A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.)
To: org.whodat; dtel
Thanks for the update... I had heard that they did, but thought they had stopped (correctly so)
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!!!
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posted on
08/20/2003 8:57:12 PM PDT
by
PurVirgo
(Never fault a pig for having a shorter neck than a girraffe)
To: GinaB
Spam
To: Bedford Forrest
It's like "chicken fajitas".
To: general_re
Two words: "Taco Bell". Oh, I thought it was Micky D's.
To: GinaB
Lysteria is the most common microbe period. It's in the soil, the air, your shoes, your hair. Lysteria thrives in cool anerobic conditions. That means inside the refrigerator. Even inside the package.
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.
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posted on
08/20/2003 9:09:14 PM PDT
by
blackdog
(Lost in the Bermuda triangle since 1979)
To: general_re
Two words: "Taco Bell"You mean, "Gato Bell"
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posted on
08/20/2003 9:11:03 PM PDT
by
Semper911
(For some people, bread and circus are not enough. Hence, FreeRepublic.com)
To: PurVirgo
Not bait, but a floating fish food to help them grow a little faster and fatter. It is 31% protein and doesn't really smell like sewage, although it doesn't smell like a fresh daisy either.
I think you are thinking of Catfish Charlie or some other stink bait.
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posted on
08/20/2003 9:11:11 PM PDT
by
dtel
(Texas Longhorn cattle for sale at all times. We don't rent pigs)
To: Thinkin' Gal
Naw, the Golden Arches is a half-step up the ladder of quality. They use mostly homeless winos and people who thought they were "donating to science" upon their departure...
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posted on
08/20/2003 9:13:57 PM PDT
by
general_re
(A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.)
To: GinaB
Hot dogs!
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posted on
08/20/2003 9:16:26 PM PDT
by
kdmhcdcfld
(Any rebroadcast of this tagline without the express written consent of FreeRepublic is prohibited.)
To: GinaB
I thought the company eliminated the bacteria then donated it to the UN for distribution in the third world starving countries just like the pharmaceutical companies due to out of date medicine.
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