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DESCRIPTION: The meat industry sued the federal government, winning the right to sell food known to be contaminated with food poisoning bacteria.
I’ve touched on this before in my videos Salmonella in Chicken and Turkey Deadly but Not Illegal ( Zero Tolerance to Acceptable Risk ( and Unsafe at Any Feed ( For more on the Foster Farms outbreak, see my last video Foster Farms Responds to Chicken Salmonella Outbreaks (
More on the issue of cross-contamination in:
• Food Poisoning Bacteria Cross Contamination (
• Meat-borne Infection Risk from Shopping Carts (
• Don’t Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is (
Note when it comes to egg-borne infection the issue is not just cross-contamination, given Salmonella can survive the most common egg cooking methods. Check out my video Total Recall (
Though some meat additives may make meat safer (Viral Meat Spray, and Maggot Meat Spray, others may increase the food safety risk. See my video Phosphate Additives in Chicken ( In my next video, Who Determines if Food Additives are Safe? ( I’ll explore how it is that harmful additives can end up on store shelves.
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