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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
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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. Thus,
all raw food is going to contain
some bacteria, but whether they
become potentially large in num
ber or dangerous depends to a large
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extent on how that raw food is
handled and prepared. Most cases
of food-associated illness should
not be blamed primarily on the
producer. He normally has little
control over the presence of these
normal bacteria in his animals or
their environment.
As previously indicated, there
may be rare situations where a spe
cific type of bacteria could be
greatly reduced or eliminated from
the animal production environ
ment. At the present time, the poul
try industry is making a massive
effort to try and reduce or elimi
nate Salmonella enteritidis (SB)
from egg production flocks.
Because as with most of the other
more than 1,600 types of Sal
monella, SE is found in many spe
cies of domestic and wild animals
and in an uncertain number of
human carriers, it is uncertain
whether this effort will be success
ful. As in most food-associated ill
nesses, those caused by SE are
most often associated with the use
of raw or partially raw product or
gross mishandling of the food.
In a future article, 1 will explore
two other factors related to bacteri
a in the production environment
that may be critical in understand
ing and developing rational food
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