Another food recall

[glenn57]

crap is crap.........

To a large extent that is true. We're all well aware of recalls due to fecal contamination in hamburger coming from cattle. And as sheep producers we're not big cat fans as they can carry toxoplasmosis, a neat little organism that is shed as oocytes in their feces. Not only can it cause abortions in sheep, pregnant women are also advised to stay away from cat litter boxes. Salmonella and coccidiosis can get into these turkey barns via sparrow and starling feces. According to a dear late friend who worked for Jerome's & Jenny O, they were constantly battling to keep them out, especially in the older barns. Hog manure too has it's little issues. Some of the diseases (remember swine flu?) cross over from swine to humans and with most of the swine production being confinement with pits under the buildings full of swine sewage, it's another potential human health issue. When we've had clients bring us liquid swine manure samples to send in for analysis, I am always very cautious. More than once after handling the samples I've come down with some sort of respiratory ailment. Trying to get people to freeze the stuff and double bag it before bringing it in helps but some catch on pretty slowly as to why that's important. Another thing that was common several years back was to have showers and bathrooms in the hog buildings that emptied directly into the pit with the swine manure. That got the kibosh pretty quickly once word got out. Not a real brilliant idea.

It's pretty easy to see how a micro organism can spread too once it gets onto plants within a field. I still remember plant path class. One of the labs involved a demonstration of splash dissemination. A 5 gal. bucket of water was placed in the middle of a moisture sensitive paper with a radius of about 10'. The guy climbed up on a stepladder and from about 8' up dribbled about 100 ml of water slowly out of a beaker into the bucket. Amazing how many droplets could be found on the outer edges of the paper. Just think about what would happen with subsequent rainfall events in a field.         

boy that Dotch knows his sheet!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

he should.......he's full of it!!!!!!!!!!

[LPS]

Pretty impressive and makes sense to me.  DON'T EAT POOP!!!

[Rebel SS]

Hey Reb, at least our green beans are safe. Get down there and stock up.

AAAAAAHHHH............Soylent Green!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

[mike89]

dang Reb dat was funny!!   

[deadeye]

Damn, looking back a few years I can't imagine why I'm still alive.  Back on the farm we had several shallow, muddy ponds.  This is where the cows went to drink poop and pee. In summer along with the floating cow pies, they were often covered in green/blue algae. I can't even imagine all the contaminants and bugs that were in that water.  Yes, we did use it for our pool.  Swimming, rafting and no doubt swallowing a good amount of it.  Never once gave a thought about e coli, Naegleria fowleri, blue-green algae poisoning, Nile Virus, or any of todays identified issues with pond water.  I guess it was all the un pasteurized milk straight from the cows that help prevent my slow agonizing death from drinking contaminated pond water.   

[Rebel SS]

Minnesota reports 1 case of hepatitis A linked to outbreak

November 27, 2019

MINNESOTA NEWS, MINNESOTA NEWS FROM THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, TOP STORIES
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Minnesota health officials say the state has reported its first case of hepatitis A linked to blackberries sold at Fresh Thyme grocery stores in September.

The Minnesota Department of Health said Wednesday the person was hospitalized and has since recovered.

Health officials have warned consumers in 11 states against eating some berries bought from the Fresh Thyme chain. Officials have confirmed 14 cases of hepatitis A as part of the outbreak in Indiana, Minnesota, Michigan, Nebraska and Wisconsin.

Fresh Thyme has said it is cooperating with investigators to identify the source of the contamination.

Hepatitis A is a virus that infects the liver and can cause mild, flu-like symptoms.

Minnesota health officials are reminding consumers to avoid eating fresh, non-organic blackberries bought from Fresh Thyme between Sept. 9 and Sept. 30.

[glenn57]

Minnesota reports 1 case of hepatitis A linked to outbreak

November 27, 2019

MINNESOTA NEWS, MINNESOTA NEWS FROM THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, TOP STORIES
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Minnesota health officials say the state has reported its first case of hepatitis A linked to blackberries sold at Fresh Thyme grocery stores in September.

The Minnesota Department of Health said Wednesday the person was hospitalized and has since recovered.

Health officials have warned consumers in 11 states against eating some berries bought from the Fresh Thyme chain. Officials have confirmed 14 cases of hepatitis A as part of the outbreak in Indiana, Minnesota, Michigan, Nebraska and Wisconsin.

Fresh Thyme has said it is cooperating with investigators to identify the source of the contamination.

Hepatitis A is a virus that infects the liver and can cause mild, flu-like symptoms.

Minnesota health officials are reminding consumers to avoid eating fresh, non-organic blackberries bought from Fresh Thyme between Sept. 9 and Sept. 30.

shouldn't this be in the health thread??

[Rebel SS]

Maybe!       This sure should be....

[glenn57]

 

[mike89]

Damn, looking back a few years I can't imagine why I'm still alive.  Back on the farm we had several shallow, muddy ponds.  This is where the cows went to drink poop and pee. In summer along with the floating cow pies, they were often covered in green/blue algae. I can't even imagine all the contaminants and bugs that were in that water.  Yes, we did use it for our pool.  Swimming, rafting and no doubt swallowing a good amount of it.  Never once gave a thought about e coli, Naegleria fowleri, blue-green algae poisoning, Nile Virus, or any of todays identified issues with pond water.  I guess it was all the un pasteurized milk straight from the cows that help prevent my slow agonizing death from drinking contaminated pond water.   

but remember deadeye we all grew up in a different world,,  we were could get dirty and nor get yelled at...  the world is evolving.. 

[Rebel SS]

I remember hearing "you eat a peck of dirt in your life".......

[delcecchi]

I remember hearing "you eat a peck of dirt in your life".......

My aunt's version was you gotta eat a peck of dirt before you die....

[delcecchi]

Minnesota reports 1 case of hepatitis A linked to outbreak

November 27, 2019

MINNESOTA NEWS, MINNESOTA NEWS FROM THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, TOP STORIES
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Minnesota health officials say the state has reported its first case of hepatitis A linked to blackberries sold at Fresh Thyme grocery stores in September.

The Minnesota Department of Health said Wednesday the person was hospitalized and has since recovered.

Health officials have warned consumers in 11 states against eating some berries bought from the Fresh Thyme chain. Officials have confirmed 14 cases of hepatitis A as part of the outbreak in Indiana, Minnesota, Michigan, Nebraska and Wisconsin.

Fresh Thyme has said it is cooperating with investigators to identify the source of the contamination.

Hepatitis A is a virus that infects the liver and can cause mild, flu-like symptoms.

Minnesota health officials are reminding consumers to avoid eating fresh, non-organic blackberries bought from Fresh Thyme between Sept. 9 and Sept. 30.

Makes me even more glad to have gotten vaccinated against Hep A.  Two doses. 

[Dotch]

Probably a lot more dirt than that Rebs if you ate string beans that got rained on a lot like this last summer. Yer probably safe...

I agree mikey. A lot of this is common sense.

[delcecchi]

And that is why the Chinese cooked everything, at least on the outside.

[Gunner55]

Probably a lot more dirt than that Rebs if you ate string beans that got rained on a lot like this last summer. Yer probably safe...

I agree mikey. A lot of this is common sense.

But it's not so common these days. Besides the millennials want to spell it cents.

[mike89]

Probably a lot more dirt than that Rebs if you ate string beans that got rained on a lot like this last summer. Yer probably safe...

I agree mikey. A lot of this is common sense.

But it's not so common these days. Besides the millennials want to spell it cents.

that is true!!

[Rebel SS]

They were probably crying and wringing their hands today since I see their facebook and snatchchat or whatever it's called was down today thru a mass crash...

[delcecchi]

Damn, looking back a few years I can't imagine why I'm still alive.  Back on the farm we had several shallow, muddy ponds.  This is where the cows went to drink poop and pee. In summer along with the floating cow pies, they were often covered in green/blue algae. I can't even imagine all the contaminants and bugs that were in that water.  Yes, we did use it for our pool.  Swimming, rafting and no doubt swallowing a good amount of it.  Never once gave a thought about e coli, Naegleria fowleri, blue-green algae poisoning, Nile Virus, or any of todays identified issues with pond water.  I guess it was all the un pasteurized milk straight from the cows that help prevent my slow agonizing death from drinking contaminated pond water.   

Yah, you are alive.  Others died.   And the dead folks don't post... Typhoid, Scarlet Fever, and a whole list of others...    I'm sure you have walked through an old time cemetery and seen the headstones from all the kids that died young.   And their mothers...

[Rebel SS]

I liked deadeyes little story.......reminds me of swimming in the Zumbro when the sewage plant let go.

[mike89]

Damn, looking back a few years I can't imagine why I'm still alive.  Back on the farm we had several shallow, muddy ponds.  This is where the cows went to drink poop and pee. In summer along with the floating cow pies, they were often covered in green/blue algae. I can't even imagine all the contaminants and bugs that were in that water.  Yes, we did use it for our pool.  Swimming, rafting and no doubt swallowing a good amount of it.  Never once gave a thought about e coli, Naegleria fowleri, blue-green algae poisoning, Nile Virus, or any of todays identified issues with pond water.  I guess it was all the un pasteurized milk straight from the cows that help prevent my slow agonizing death from drinking contaminated pond water.   

Yah, you are alive.  Others died.   And the dead folks don't post... Typhoid, Scarlet Fever, and a whole list of others...    I'm sure you have walked through an old time cemetery and seen the headstones from all the kids that died young.   And their mothers...

why such a downer?? 

[deadeye]

I hear you delcecchi.  My grandfather died in 1956 from blood poisoning after cutting himself while building my dads barn and then tying a dirty rag on his leg to cover the wound. As odd as it may sound, his father (my great grandfather) suffered a similar fate in 1905 when he cut himself on the leg with a draw knife and subsequently died from blood poising. 

 St. Peter's Bote, Nov.30, 1905
+Heinrich Gerwing
 But, alas! While adjusting some small thing, he cut himself in his right leg with his pocketknife. When it bled profusely he tied a blue piece of cloth around it. He paid no attention to the wound at first and kept on working. But by evening his leg pained him very much. He got blood poison from the blue cloth. For three weeks he stayed in his house, his leg getting worse day by day. Even then he did not want to consult a doctor. Finally he gave in and had someone bring out Dr. Neely. Dr. Neely has a hospital in Humboldt to which Gerwing was taken. He lay in the hospital for a week at which time Re. P. Rudolph gave him the Holy Sacraments. After that he was alive for only a day and gradually passed into eternity. Only his wife was there when he died, his sons arriving two hours too late.

[delcecchi]

Mike and reb.. not a downer.  But back in the day people died from stuff we don't think about.  Saying I did something and didn't die is sort of silly since if you had died you wouldn't have been posting..

[glenn57]

 

[mike89]

you have an interesting way of saying something.. 

[glenn57]

you have an interesting way of saying something..

[Rebel SS]

https://www.today.com/health/hard-boiled-eggs-sold-walmart-costco-recalled-over-listeria-concerns-t170637

[LPS]

Can't eat lettuce anymore unless you grow your own.  I don't want to get any chickens.

[Rebel SS]

Rocks in the chicken?! 


https://www.kaaltv.com/health/conagra-brands-inc-recalls-nearly-131000-pounds-of-chicken-bowl-items-due-to-small-rocks-contamination/5704048/?cat=10151

[Reinhard]

Ya I don't get it Reb.  These recalls are always after the fact.  Folks already are eating the stuff or in the freezer.  They have federal inspectors in every plant.  One thing about recalls, the stores hear about it right away before the media does and it gets pulled on the spot.  So you should not ever see a recalled item in any store.  good luck.