http://www.barfblog.com/blog/140817/10/02/12/hundreds-sick-outbreaks-gastroenteritis-linked-lettuce-denmark-january-2010

Veterinarians and antibiotics experts found plenty to disagree with in a CBS Evening News report on the potential threat to human health from the use of antibiotics in farm animals.

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I used to be an even bigger nerd than I currently am. Spending my time focusing on food safety might be considered by some as sexy (the food pornographers) but while in high school I was into a much weirder and unhip hobby -- I built robots.

School children are recovering following a salmonella outbreak in Canterbury, U.K. Kent News reports that so far, seven cases of Salmonella typhimurium PT U319 have been confirmed by laboratory tests in children living in the Canterbury area. Onset of these cases was mid December-mid January.

CHICAGO -- S.T.O.P.-Safe Tables Our Priority is asking the USDA to give a life-saving gift this Valentine's Day by declaring disease-causing E. coli's other than O157:H7 as adulterants in beef and  begin testing for them. 
 
E. coli O157:H7 was declared an adulterant in ground beef in 1994 in the aftermath of the west coast outbreak that sickened over 700 people and killed at least 4.

(The views and opinions expressed in this blog are strictly those of the author.) Virtually anybody whose family has been walking upright for more than two generations knows CBS launched a two-part series critiquing the use of antibiotics in animals.

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