Salmonella
in Dutch Fish
Summary:
The bacteria Salmonella has been found in Dutch smoked fish.
This fish from the company Foppen is shipped to both the Netherlands and to the
United States. Salmonella is a bacterium that makes people very ill with
symptoms of nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, blood in stool, abdominal pain, fever
and chills. Usually one would get a salmonella infection from eating raw or
uncooked meat products including poultry. Sickness from the bacteria usually
lasts from four to seven days, but it may take a few months for your “bowels to
be back to normal”. Two hundred people in the Netherlands have been reported ill
with the same salmonella found in the fish and in 100 other Americans who all
consumed the fish from the Dutch company. There has been an international
recall on this fish and the number of those who are ill is estimated to be much
higher.
Analysis:
It’s scary to think that the food we consume every day has
the potential to make us ill. Most of us trust where our food is coming from
and that the health standards put in place by the government will protect us
from such “accidents”. My concern specifically for this article is that the contaminated
meat was allowed to be transported to different places around the world while
having bacteria on it that makes people sick. Are not meat and other products
supposed to be tested at different cycles during processing to check for things
like this? Are there no standards for processing? No company wants their brand
marked as one that has “bad food”; and no customer wants to worry about being
made sick because of a certain food product. Therefore, it makes sense that
products should be tested before they are sent out to be consumed. People are
so trusting of set standards that they may get fairly upset when they are
knocked out of work for a week due to a mistake by a food company.
10/5/2012 11:14 AM
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/salmonella/DS00926/DSECTION=symptoms
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