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- Melissa Breyer
- August 18, 2010
- 5:01 pm
- 338 comments
The most common symptoms of salmonella are diarrhea, abdominal cramps and fever within eight hours to 72 hours of eating a contaminated product. It can be life-threatening, especially to those with weakened immune systems.
According to the CDC, consumers should take these precautions to avoid contracting salmonella:
1. Don’t eat recalled eggs or products containing recalled eggs. Recalled eggs might still be in grocery stores, restaurants, and consumers’ homes.
2. Consumers who have recalled eggs should discard them or return them to their retailer for a refund.
3. Individuals who think they might have become ill from eating recalled eggs should consult their health care providers.
4. Keep eggs refrigerated at ≤ 45° F (≤7° C) at all times.
5. Discard cracked or dirty eggs.
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Melissa Breyer
Melissa Breyer is a writer and editor with a background in sustainable living, specializing in food, science and design. She is the co-author of True Food (National Geographic) and has edited and written for regional and international books and periodicals, including The New York Times Magazine. Melissa lives in Brooklyn, NY.
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Such a lovely sight! Thank you
in the other words, we all ought to be eating and living like our forefathers. move it, move it~
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+ add your ownDitto, Yvette :)
The only way to avoid salmonella from eggs is to never eat eggs! Mixing animal tissues, blood, fluids with our own is very disgusting. All slaughtered animals have ecoli, feces, urine mixed in...and animal carcasses are combined together.
Clean eggs from a clean farm? Are you nuts? - eggs come out the arse of a hen, the same arse it uses to defecate.
You can get Salmonella on as clean a farm as you can find.
And a recent Danish study found that 1/3 of all conventional chicken farms had Salmonella while 2/3 of organic chicken farms had it.
Thanks for the info.
Heres what the problem was last time..
Salmonella samples link 2 Iowa farms to egg recall, FDA says
BY MARY CLARE JALONICK
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Food and Drug Administration officials say they have found positive samples of salmonella that link two Iowa farms to a massive egg recall.
Investigators found salmonella in chicken feed at Wright County Egg that was used by that farm and also Hillandale Farms, the FDA said. Authorities also found additional samples of salmonella in other locations at Wright County Egg. More than 550 million eggs from the two farms were recalled this month after being linked to salmonella poisoning in several states.
One of the positive salmonella samples was found in a feed ingredient sold to Wright County Egg by a third-party supplier, Central Bi-Products, according to Wright County Egg. That raises new questions about whether other egg farms also received contaminated feed.
The FDA could not confirm that the feed element came from a third party but has said it doesn’t believe that the outbreak will expand beyond the two farms.
Also Thursday, the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said up to 1,470 illnesses could be linked to the outbreak, about 200 more than previously thought.
Sherri McGarry of the FDA’s Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition said the salmonella found at Wright County Egg matches the strain found in many of those who were sickened. She said the tests indica
thanks for posting this.
Here are another eleven precautions: don't eat factory farm eggs, don't buy products that contain factory farm eggs, don't patronize restaurants that serve factory farm eggs, don't support factory farm eggs, don't eat factory farm chickens, don't buy products that contain factory farm chickens, don't patronize restaurants that serve factory farm chickens, don't support factory farms, don't pretend factory farming is okay, don't think chickens want you to eat them AT ALL, don't look the other way.
Lucky for me I live in Georgia, and we haven't been affected - yet.
Scary. Thanks for the article. I never knew fever was a symptom.
Informative article.
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