Poultry fingered as No. 1 food poisoning culprit

Poultry fingered as No. 1 food poisoning culprit

ATLANTA – Cooking chicken on the grill this summer? Be careful. Poultry is still the leading culprit in food poisoning outbreaks, health officials said Thursday.

Chicken, turkey and other poultry accounted for 17 percent of the food-borne illness outbreaks reported to the government. Beef and leafy vegetables were close behind, at 16 percent and 14 percent.

The report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention covers outbreaks in 2007. Poultry was also the No. 1 source of outbreaks in 2006.

Salmonella and other kinds of bacteria caused about half of the outbreaks, the CDC said. Viruses — like norovirus — caused about 40 percent, mushroom toxin or other chemical agents were blamed for 7 percent. Parasites accounted for 1 percent.


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When you consider how wretched the industry is, this comes as no surprise.

Nothing else matters.

Get used to it.

:sarcasm:

food poisoning than to battle. Mozart likely died of eating bad pork, and around the same time botulism was common in German sausages.

More recently, we did have those pure food laws passed around the turn of the last century because everything was in pretty bad shape.

It's not easy keeping food clean, even on small farms.

(And I got sick a month ago from some romaine lettuce.)

Nasty stuff the meat packing industry before the USDA.

Damn that dirty bird.

:(

About animals as food...worth watching: http://www.unleashed.org.au/features/earthlings/

as is all my chicken, beef and sheep.

The fish is killed in front of me after I take it out of the water.

Food shopping in China is great!!!

and wear disposable gloves when handling it raw. That is all.

rubbery overdone chicken from time to time. I eat a LOT of it. Every day.

through pancakes.

A friend of Mr Pip's got food poisoning via pancakes at the IHOP.

the guy actually died...