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DESCRIPTION: In a national survey, fewer than half of the participants realized meat contaminated with fecal food-poisoning bacteria such as Salmonella can still legally be sold. Rather than producing safe products, the meat industry shifts the responsibility for safety onto the consumer. Industry experts, in fact, admit it’s too expensive for the industry not to sell contaminated chicken—see Fecal Bacteria Survey ( For questionable steps the meat industry is taking to mediate the threat see Viral Meat Spray ( and Maggot Meat Spray ( The risks of handling fresh meat are discussed in Food Poisoning Bacteria Cross-Contamination ( There are 25 other videos on foodborne illness ( and hundreds of other videos on more than a thousand subjects at
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