Healthy chickens could reduce campylobacter
American disease scientists are warning that bouts of food poisoning can cause serious health risks months or even years after people think they have recovered from the initial illness. E coli for instance has been linked, years after a patient has recovered from it, to hospitalisation as a result of high blood pressure, colon or pancreas inflammation, or endometriosis.
Folks often assume once you’re over the acute illness, that’s it, you’re back to normal and that’s the end of it,” said Dr. Robert Tauxe of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The long-term consequences are “an important but relatively poorly documented, poorly studied area of food borne illness.
In New Zealand campylobacter is the food borne disease of the moment, with The New Zealand Food Safety Authority recently releasing its new Risk Management Strategy for processing of poultry.
Studies suggest that up to 90% of chickens in New Zealand are infected with campylobacter. There are three key points at which the risk of campylobacter can be reduced; In the kitchen, with safe handling and cooking of chickens, in the retail process in the shops with safe packaging and freezing, and at the very beginning by doing something about the infected birds themselves. Unfortunately while the code has many sensible plans for the first two areas, it lets us down on this third aspect.
As Sue Kedgley notes:
A higher emphasis should be placed on more hygienic methods of transportation to avoid cross-contamination between live birds. Campylobacter lives in the gut of the chicken and transporting them in cages stacked on top of each other will inevitably result in the droppings from birds higher up the stack contaminating those below them.
The spray caused by the rubber fingers of the automatic defeatherer is a major source of contamination from one bird to the next, as is the automatic evisceration machine. This machine pulls the gut from the bird, however, if not set to the correct size can tear the gut spilling the contents over the chicken and contaminating the machine.
And the consequences can be horrific:
About 1 in 1,000 sufferers of campylobacter, a diarrhea-causing infection spread by raw poultry, develop far more serious Guillain-Barre syndrome a month or so later. Their body attacks their nerves, causing paralysis that usually requires intensive care and a ventilator to breath.
January 24th, 2008 at 3:32 pm
Heres an idea. Lets irradiate them. That’ll do it!
January 24th, 2008 at 4:16 pm
Autoclaving works too…
January 24th, 2008 at 8:03 pm
hey big tough bruv, would be like to me post you a few spare campylobacter rusty knives, so you and the lying roger gnome mason can stab me in the back a few more times on kiwiblog ? Good one, typical actions from timid characters ;
“I do take issue with those protesting the freedom of the left wing sites, while I am in completer agreement with the banning of D4J (he is clearly unwell)”
FYI; I have never visited gnomes blog or commented and I am very well indeed. What a funny chap or should I say Ms ?
January 24th, 2008 at 9:09 pm
mmm!!!!
diseased chicken..!
yumm!!
(anyway..it karmically serves them right..for eating the tortured animals from those vile/cruel factory-farms..
phil(whoar.co.nz)
January 24th, 2008 at 9:29 pm
D4J
I stand by those comments, while I agree with a lot of what you have to say the manner of its delivery and the levels of personal abuse you heap on people is a bit of a worry.
All I am saying is that anybody who harbors that level of hatred has one or two issues they need to deal with, I have no great love for Clark or most from the left (and like you I think they are out and out lier’s) but I refuse to stoop to their level.
Having said all that I must admit that I am not perfect, I too am capable of working up a head of steam when it comes to animal abusers (and politicians who accuse all men who administer a light smack of being pedophiles) but there are limits when discussing these issues on line, just because somebody has differing political opinions does not make them evil, they are of course wrong but they do not deserve to be abused or threatened.
January 24th, 2008 at 9:57 pm
little bro , I stand by comments . You call me “clearly unwell” and I call you a coward for attacking me on a forum to which I cannot reply .
You are unfair and don’t try and make me out to be the angry violent deadbeat as that is a totally malicious untruth !! You will see me for who I am shortly .
You lefties always try and twist things around . Why can’t you be straight up ?
January 24th, 2008 at 10:00 pm
Just take comfort from all the other people standing up for you D4J…
Surprised no one mentioned the phrase ‘free range’ here.
January 24th, 2008 at 10:14 pm
“inflict” big bro, not “administer”.
if you’re not ashamed of it, tell it like it is.
now would you feel better if we made the same accusation against women?
January 25th, 2008 at 1:26 am
In the context that BB used administer it has the same dictionary definition as inflict.
http://www.answers.com/topic/administer?cat=biz-fin
http://www.answers.com/topic/inflict
January 25th, 2008 at 10:27 am
So yeah what about the irradiation then? see: Kiwiblog
January 29th, 2008 at 2:46 pm
There is no way the breeds of chickens used for commercial broiler production (even free range production) could be described as “healthy”. They are genetic freaks; bred to be so top heavy that their hearts and legs cannot cope with their bulk. As a result, up to 40% of broilers in New Zealand are in continuous pain for up to a week through lameness, and they are also susceptible to metabolic diseases such as ascites.
Animal welfare expert John Webster from Bristol University has described broiler production as “in both magnitude and severity, the single most severe systematic example of man’s inhumanity to another sentient animal”
January 30th, 2008 at 11:49 am
sure administering justice can include administering punishment, but not when you are to be judge, jury & flaybottomist.
“administer” implies something impersonal.
if an offender is processed by the system, sentenced to be punished & your boss designates you to be the one to carry out the punishement on that day, then you can say you “administer” it.
otherwise you’re just whacking them