10 PATHOGEN-FOOD COMBINATIONS RANKING THE HEALTH RISK (TITLE TO RANCHERS)
Ranking the Risks: The 10 Pathogen-Food Combinations With The Greatest Burden on Public Health
Michael B. Batz, Sandra Hoffmann and J. Glenn Morris, Jr.
CHAPTER 4: FINDINGS And RECOMMENDATIONS
From our analysis and results, we draw the following major findings:
1. We estimate the public health burden of 14 foodborne pathogens in the United States to be over $14 billion and 60,000 QALYs per year, with 90 percent of these impacts due to only five pathogens: Salmonella, Campylobacter, Listeria, Toxoplasma and norovirus. Across all 14 pathogens in all foods, we find about half of the burden is due to only 10 pathogen-food combinations, a list which includes a variety of commodities including poultry, pork, produce, beef, dairy products and eggs. These 14 pathogens analyzed represent over 95 percent of the annual illnesses and hospitalizations, and almost 98 percent of the deaths, estimated by CDC due to the 31 specific foodborne pathogens estimated by CDC (Scallan et al. 2011a).
2. Consumption of FDA regulated foods is estimated to cause about half of the overall national burden of foodborne disease. Although attribution data are imperfect, our analysis suggests that poultry, pork and beef cause about $5.7 billion or loss of 30,000 QALY s in disease annually, while produce, dairy products, seafood, breads, beverages and multi-ingredient complex foods (e.g. non-meat dishes served in restaurants, other establishments or homes, as well as processed foods such as peanut butter) cause about $6 billion or loss of 24,000 QALY s in disease burden. Deli meats and eggs cause an additional $1.8 billion and 7,000 QALY s. This can be viewed as a shared USDA/FDA responsibility. Although FSIS regulates delimeat manufacture and processing, FDA has federal responsibility for developing model statutes for food handling in food service and retail food establishment where contamination also occurs. It's important to note that our estimates take current control efforts in the private and public sectors as given. These estimates do not measure of the efficacy of either FSIS or FDA activities.
The top 10 pathogen-food combinations list flattens a very complicated food system into a simplified picture of pathogens in very broad food categories. Our food categories reflect "foods as consumed," rather than traditional agricultural commodity categories, because of the important role in food handling and preparation as important risk factors. The focus on "foods as consumed" also provides the most direct link to data used to estimate disease incidence. But the ability to prevent, or create, foodborne illness risks occurs throughout the food production, processing, marketing and preparation chain. When considering interventions, the full farm to fork spectrum should be taken into account.
3. Four of the top 10 pathogen-food combinations represent significant risks to pregnant women and developing fetuses.
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see full text ;
http://www.epi.ufl.edu/sites/www.epi.uf ... REPORT.pdf
Monday, April 18, 2011
Multidrug-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus in US Meat and Poultry
http://staphmrsa.blogspot.com/2011/04/m ... occus.html
Staphylococcus toxin is not markedly affected by heating or freezing as it is heat stable. Even if the food is heated before eating, the poison in the food will cause illness although the heat has killed the bacterial cells.
http://www.foodscience.caes.uga.edu/ext ... ection.pdf
NOW, the Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy, TSE, Prion, aka mad cow type diseases can not be included here, due to the long incubation period. all those children fed dead stock down cows, the most high risk cattle for a long incubating disease will just have to wait, maybe as long as 50 years. your only kidding yourself folks $$$ if you think for one minute that the largest beef recall in USA history (at the time), was due to a few animals being abused, well, your wrong. and any long term ramifications there from will not be known for a long time.
http://www.fns.usda.gov/fns/safety/pdf/ ... yState.pdf
PLEASE NOTE *
Over the next 8-10 weeks, approximately 40% of all the adult mink on the farm died from TME.
snip...
The rancher was a ''dead stock'' feeder using mostly (>95%) downer or dead dairy cattle...
http://web.archive.org/web/200305160516 ... /tab05.pdf
is this what agriculture for the masses have come to be $$$
http://www.bloggernews.net/126457
TSS
Ranking the Risks: The 10 Pathogen-Food Combinations With The Greatest Burden on Public Health
Michael B. Batz, Sandra Hoffmann and J. Glenn Morris, Jr.
CHAPTER 4: FINDINGS And RECOMMENDATIONS
From our analysis and results, we draw the following major findings:
1. We estimate the public health burden of 14 foodborne pathogens in the United States to be over $14 billion and 60,000 QALYs per year, with 90 percent of these impacts due to only five pathogens: Salmonella, Campylobacter, Listeria, Toxoplasma and norovirus. Across all 14 pathogens in all foods, we find about half of the burden is due to only 10 pathogen-food combinations, a list which includes a variety of commodities including poultry, pork, produce, beef, dairy products and eggs. These 14 pathogens analyzed represent over 95 percent of the annual illnesses and hospitalizations, and almost 98 percent of the deaths, estimated by CDC due to the 31 specific foodborne pathogens estimated by CDC (Scallan et al. 2011a).
2. Consumption of FDA regulated foods is estimated to cause about half of the overall national burden of foodborne disease. Although attribution data are imperfect, our analysis suggests that poultry, pork and beef cause about $5.7 billion or loss of 30,000 QALY s in disease annually, while produce, dairy products, seafood, breads, beverages and multi-ingredient complex foods (e.g. non-meat dishes served in restaurants, other establishments or homes, as well as processed foods such as peanut butter) cause about $6 billion or loss of 24,000 QALY s in disease burden. Deli meats and eggs cause an additional $1.8 billion and 7,000 QALY s. This can be viewed as a shared USDA/FDA responsibility. Although FSIS regulates delimeat manufacture and processing, FDA has federal responsibility for developing model statutes for food handling in food service and retail food establishment where contamination also occurs. It's important to note that our estimates take current control efforts in the private and public sectors as given. These estimates do not measure of the efficacy of either FSIS or FDA activities.
The top 10 pathogen-food combinations list flattens a very complicated food system into a simplified picture of pathogens in very broad food categories. Our food categories reflect "foods as consumed," rather than traditional agricultural commodity categories, because of the important role in food handling and preparation as important risk factors. The focus on "foods as consumed" also provides the most direct link to data used to estimate disease incidence. But the ability to prevent, or create, foodborne illness risks occurs throughout the food production, processing, marketing and preparation chain. When considering interventions, the full farm to fork spectrum should be taken into account.
3. Four of the top 10 pathogen-food combinations represent significant risks to pregnant women and developing fetuses.
snip...
see full text ;
http://www.epi.ufl.edu/sites/www.epi.uf ... REPORT.pdf
Monday, April 18, 2011
Multidrug-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus in US Meat and Poultry
http://staphmrsa.blogspot.com/2011/04/m ... occus.html
Staphylococcus toxin is not markedly affected by heating or freezing as it is heat stable. Even if the food is heated before eating, the poison in the food will cause illness although the heat has killed the bacterial cells.
http://www.foodscience.caes.uga.edu/ext ... ection.pdf
NOW, the Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy, TSE, Prion, aka mad cow type diseases can not be included here, due to the long incubation period. all those children fed dead stock down cows, the most high risk cattle for a long incubating disease will just have to wait, maybe as long as 50 years. your only kidding yourself folks $$$ if you think for one minute that the largest beef recall in USA history (at the time), was due to a few animals being abused, well, your wrong. and any long term ramifications there from will not be known for a long time.
http://www.fns.usda.gov/fns/safety/pdf/ ... yState.pdf
PLEASE NOTE *
Over the next 8-10 weeks, approximately 40% of all the adult mink on the farm died from TME.
snip...
The rancher was a ''dead stock'' feeder using mostly (>95%) downer or dead dairy cattle...
http://web.archive.org/web/200305160516 ... /tab05.pdf
is this what agriculture for the masses have come to be $$$
http://www.bloggernews.net/126457
TSS
