David Kradel Herbert Jordan Milton Madison ■—l o 9 n Penn State »> it Poultry Pointers Herbert Siegel Donald Singletai David Kradel FOOD SAFETY AND BACTERIA— THE OTHER PART OF THE STORY Americans have the most abun dant, reasonably priced, high qual ity and safe food in the world. Nonetheless, one of the important issues facing the poultry industry, as well as other food production industries, is a concern about food safety. In this article I will outline one aspect of bacterial (microbio logic) food safety that is usually not discussed or understood. Bacteria are invisible but they are everywhere. The bacteria of most concern in food safety include salmonella, Campylobac ter, listeria, staph, E. coli and Clo stridia. Many of these are normally present in the intestinal tracts and feces of animals and man and their environments, such as soil, dust, and housing. They are an integral and very stable part of our ecosys tem, or a part of nature. With the possible exception of rare specific types, most of these bacteria would BOOST YOUR PRODUCTIVI be for all practical purposes, impossible to eliminate from the animal production environment or from the environment with which people come in contact on a daily basis. We need to begin to think of these bacteria as neighbors. They are always going to be there, we need to respect but not fear their presence. We need to know when, how, and-why they could cause us trouble. Food-associated illness caused by bacteria most often results from mishandling of the new product between the time it is produced and the time it is eaten. This mishand ling gives the relatively few bac teria, that are normally present in raw food or that get there from an infected food handler or contami nated equipment, the opportunity to rapidly multiply. Within hours under warm conditions, a few bac teria in the right kind of food can become billions of bacteria. 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