Food poisoning from salmonella up in United States

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CDC: Food poisoning from salmonella up in United States

ATLANTA (AP) -- More Americans got food poisoning last year, with
salmonella cases driving the increase, the government reported Tuesday.
Illness rates for the most common serious type of E. coli fell last
year. There was a rise in cases caused by other strains of the bacteria,
although that bump may just reflect more testing was done for them, the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said.

An unusually aggressive strain of E. coli is behind the current large
outbreak of food poisoning in Europe, mostly in Germany. That strain has
never caused an outbreak in the U.S.

The CDC estimates that 50 million Americans each year get sick from
foodborne illnesses, including about 3,000 who die.

The report released Tuesday is based on foodborne infections in only 10
states, or about 15 percent of the American population. But it has
information that other databases lack and is believed to be a good
indicator of food poisoning trends.

More than 19,000 cases of food poisoning were reported in those states
last year. That was up from 17,500 cases in 2009, and about 18,500 in
2008.

Last year, there were 4,200 hospitalizations and 68 deaths in those
states.
(cont.)

Salmonella means poop in the food.

We want a smaller government with fewer food inspectors, right?
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It's just that it's not in your hands. It has been transferred, in the
greatest heist in history, from the workers and consumers to the banks
and the portfolios of the uber-rich.
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 Billy wrote:
...

  anyone who knows much about salmonella knows
that it has multiple causes.

  it may mean poop in the food.  it may also
mean bad eggs in the food.  someone who messed
around with an infected turtle.  etc.



  we do want smaller government with fewer
food inspectors because it seems like a waste
of money to hire people to tell us the food
is as contaminated as we already know it is.

  put the money into safe food handling
research and education.

  reactive food prep surfaces and
gadgets.  so that when contaminated
food touches it it changes color
immediately.  if your food prep
gloves turned neon orange when you
touched contaminated food then at
least that gives immediate feedback
instead of delayed.


  songbird

 
Not a true statement. I do not know if the food is safe. I want the
inspections and I want the government to make sure it is safe.


Cost money for that and I am for increasing taxes to pay for that research
and education which should make our lives safer.

I'm not so sure about the theory that smaller government is better. The job
of companies is to make money. Most Corporations and individuals will not
police themselves.  It is the job of the government to protect people (it
is stated in the US constitution). Regulations are like laws, inspectors
are like police officers.

I believe more regulations are needed. One example is for small cities.
Many small cities have a single sewer system that combine storm and toilet
into one system. Those single systems should be be banned! When it rains
human waist and rain cannot be handled by the treatment centers and the
overflow goes straight into the rivers and lakes. This is why many Michigan
beaches are closed this summer due to e-coli.

Large cities should be like big cities with a dual sewer system. One for
waste and another for storm. When it rains no treatment is needed. Human
waist will be completely contained and can be treated by treatment centers.
But we have a LOW tax drive by people and this creates problems from small
government nonsense. Dual waist system cost much more money than single
systems. But small government and low taxation is in reality destroying
this country.

Even for individuals should have inspections. Septic fields are not cheap
they cost money. Many will cheat the system when their fields fail. They
will redirect their system to bypass and send their waste straight into the
drainage ditches without processing causing health problems for others. I
am for more inspections to make sure our world is a better world.

Small government reduces investment and in research that make things worse
for all.

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Enjoy Life... Nad R  (Garden in zone 5a Michigan)

 On 6/13/2011 2:02 AM, Billy wrote:

I want a smaller government where important jobs are covered and this is
one.

We had a bout of food poisoning earlier this year but could not trace to
anything.

Washing and cooking food by consumer is important.
The German problem was apparently with sprouts from an organic farm.

 

How about economic inspectors?

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has halted development of a
technology program used to flag suspicious trading because of an $11
million cut in its technology budget, increasing rancor within the small
agency about how it should spend its money.

The tensions offer a taste of spending battles to come at the CFTC and
Securities and Exchange Commission if, as seems increasingly likely,
Congress refuses to increase the agencies' funding to deal with new
mandates created by the Dodd-Frank financial-reform act.

These squabbles have a long history, and often involve budget-process
bluffing and gamesmanship between Congress and regulators. The
regulators say it's different this time because of the extensive new
responsibilities they have been handed under last year's Dodd-Frank
legislation. The two agencies say they need another 1,200 staff in total
to implement and enforce the sweeping financial overhaul.
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German authorities announced Saturday that they located the source of
the bacteria. The Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) confirmed
test results announced on Friday that identified bean sprouts in the
northern village of Bienenbüttel as carrying the virulent E. coli strain
EHEC-0104.
 
Health officials have given the green light on vegetables
"These results are an important step in the chain of evidence," said BfR
director Andreas Hensel.
 
Officials investigating an organic farm in northern Germany said on
Saturday they do not expect to take legal action against it for causing
an E.coli outbreak.
 
"Everything we have looked into until now shows the farm was flawless,"
said Gert Hahne, spokesman for the consumer protection office of Lower
Saxony state, where Bienenbüttel is located. "It is hygienic and
followed all the regulations."
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It appears that the E. coli may have been on the seeds before they were
sprouted.
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- Billy

Mad dog Republicans to the right. Democratic spider webs to the left. True
conservatives, and liberals not to be found anywhere in the phantasmagoria
of the American political landscape.

America is not broke. The country is awash in wealth and cash.
It's just that it's not in your hands. It has been transferred, in the
greatest heist in history, from the workers and consumers to the banks
and the portfolios of the uber-rich.
<http://www.politifact.com/wisconsin/statements/2011/mar/10/michael-moore
/michael-moore-says-400-americans-have-more-wealth-/>