Salmonella on the rise in chicken meat

[OhioChick]

By LIBBY QUAID, AP Food and Farm Writer
2 hours, 12 minutes ago

WASHINGTON - A type of salmonella found in eggs is turning up more often in chicken meat and needs to be reduced, according to the Agriculture Department.

From 2000 through 2005, there was a fourfold increase in positive test results for salmonella enteritidis on chicken carcasses.

"It still continues to rise, even though the overall incidence of salmonella in general has fallen," said Richard Raymond, the Agriculture Department undersecretary for food safety. "It's one that we still don't have all the scientific evidence we need to know how best to attack it."

Salmonella sickens at least 40,000 people and kills about 600 every year in the United States.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061120/ap_on_he_me/salmonella_chicken

[Viva_La_Revolution]

1. Cooking poultry to 165 degrees will kill the salmonella germ.

follow basic rules for kitchen safety: wash hands often, keep raw poultry and meat separate from cooked food, and refrigerate or freeze food right away.

[OhioChick]

2. You got it.

:thumbsup:

[Akoto]

3. Exactly.

The first rule of handling poultry is cleanliness!

People get salmonella when they handle their eggs/poultry carelessly or don't cook them thoroughly enough. I will not eat meat, regardless of the animal it came from, unless it's cooked well done.

[nam78_two]

4. Wonder if its mostly Factory Farmed poultry/nt

[pitohui]

5. most poultry is factory farmed BUT

salmonella is also found very frequently in wild turtles so i don't see why free range chicken could possibly be immune

in the south, box turtles will come right into your yard if you provide a safe environment free of the pesticides that kill them, which i do, nonetheless, if i have to pick up a box turtle and move it, i always always always wash my hands

free range chickens would go out in that same yard when i had them

i don't know how they get under the fence but i am going to presume that turtles can dig

so i think salmonella could affect free range animals just as well

always cook chicken well

[kestrel91316]

8. The factory farming is part of the problem, and the very unsanitary

high-speed factory processing is an even bigger part.

[yardwork]

9. The antibiotics in the poultry diet is a problem, too

Factory-farmed chickens are kept in such crowded unsanitary conditions, their feed routinely includes antibiotics just to keep them alive. This misuse of antibiotics breeds resistant strains of bacteria.

Free range chickens that aren't fed antibiotics are probably healthier, although I don't know how "free range" some of those chickens are actually kept.

[Stargazer99]

6. Farm factory chicken are far more stressed and exposed

to disease than free range chickens. Anyone understanding the stress farm factory chickens experience (all for the larger bottom line)it a no brainer.
In the spinach scare the way news enitities reported it you would think it was the organic farms that was the problem. They didn't tell you it was THE FACOTRY FARMED SPINACH that was the problem. Corporations will do anything for a buck and they need to be controlled for the sake of health of humans and the planet.

[flvegan]

7. "Free range" may not be *much* better

Matter of fact, it can be much worse. If one is going to eat chicken and bank on "free range" it would behoove him/her to look a little bit further into the farm/provider.