On Thu, 15 May 2008 11:01:30 +0100, Pat Gardiner
<pat.gardiner@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>Pat's Note:
>
>I feel reassured that the EU are taking over responsibility for making
>sure Britain's food is safe. You can't rely on the Food Standards
>Agency vets. Look at the state of some of the turkey farms they were
>supposed to be responsible for.
The FSA are next to worthless. I have been registered with them for
two years and in that time they have sent three notices on food and 37
on how they will be running FSA. It's a bull**** quango.
>Reacll the TV pictures during the first avian flu outbreak. They
>didn't dare prosecute the owners. The vets were complicit in allowing
>low standards.
>
>I wonder who actually tested the turkeys in Britain? You have to
>remember that Britain's bent vets fake results as a matter of routine
>and threaten anyone trying to stop them. So you can't blame the
>farmers.
>
> I wonder if the EU would help force Defra to release the MRSA figures
>for pigs.
>
>I see BPEX are alarmed about their salmonella figures and are racing
>about "doing something." That won't be anything sensible.
>
>http://www.farmersguardian.com/story.asp?sectioncode=1&storycode=18484
>
>One-third of turkeys for food chain had salmonella
>News | 15 May, 2008
>
>SALMONELLA was found to be present in one-third of turkeys reared for
>human consumption in the UK last year, but the vast majority of them
>did not threaten human health, according to the European Food Safety
>Authority (EFSA).
>
>The specific salmonella strains responsible for food infections in
>humans were detected in just 0.9 per cent of the Quality British
>Turkey (QBT) flocks, said EFSA.
>
>In the EU, 30 per cent of turkeys reared for human consumption tested
>positive for salmonella, but again that figure belies the true story
>where 3.8 per cent of turkeys were found to have strains dangerous to
>human health.
>
>The EU will now introduce regulation to reduce the number of flocks
>that pose a risk to human health to less than 1 per cent throughout
>Europe.
>
>A spokesman for the British Poultry Council said he was proud of the
>UK turkey industry, but added more work must be done with the Food
>Standards Agency and Veterinary Laboratories Agency to reduce the
>figure further.
>
>“We have done extremely well to reduce these numbers compared to many
>other EU nations. The EU target for reduction of salmonella is 1 per
>cent and we are already better than this but further work can be
>done,” he said.
I cant believe anyone would still voluntarily be eating this crap! I
thought humans were meant to be intelligent!
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