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Protecting Americans From Food-borne Pathogens in the Meat Supply: Joe
Brennesholtz PUB 529 Prof. Linden Protecting Americans From ...
Submitted by joebee on November 12, 2006
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Joe Brennesholtz
PUB 529
Prof. Linden
Protecting Americans From Food-borne Pathogens in the Meat Supply:
Policy Analysis and Recommendations
Introduction
In January of 1993, medical staff at a hospital in Seattle Washington noticed that a large number of children were being treated for bloody diarrhea. Many had developed a rare condition known as hemolytic uremic syndrome, a disorder that often results in permanent kidney damage. It was soon discovered that these children had all eaten undercooked hamburgers from the fast food chain Jack in the Box (Schlosser; 198).
At least seven hundred individuals in Washington, Idaho, and Nevada State ate hamburgers from the restaurants that were contaminated with a potentially lethal strain of bacteria known as E. Coli 0157:H7. This set off a wave of bad press for the food chain, and for a short while the conditions of the American meatpacking industry as it was discovered that in fact tainted meat had been shipped from a Vons Companies Inc., to Jack in the Box. This was the greatest outbreak of E. Coli that the United States has ever experienced. Because of the E. Coli outbreak, over seven hundred people, most of them children became severely ill some sustaining permanent organ damage, and four children died, three of them in the Seattle metropolitan area (USDoD; Online).
In July and August of 1997 in Colorado, people began getting ill from the E. Coli 0157:H7 bacterium again. This time health officials were quicker in discovering and tracing the problem. Once again, the outbreak was linked to contaminated ground meat from a single source, the Hudson Foods Plant in Columbus, Nebraska. The plant had been a supplier of meat to Midwestern restaurants of both Burger King, and Boston Market, as well as selling the meat as packages of individual hamburger patties to retail stores such as Safeway, and Walmart (CNN; Online).
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