Thousands of Meat Products Contaminated With Deadly Bacteria Sold Across the United States

AHA Publisher — Mon, 04 Apr 2022 07:00:52 +0000

Wendy Miller via NaturalHealth365 – Salmonella and campylobacter are two of the most common forms of food-borne bacteria. They are also two of the most dangerous. According to government sampling records, big brand poultry giants sold tens of thousands of meat products contaminated with deadly bacteria between 2015 and 2020. In simple terms, meat products – that are unsafe for human consumption – regularly make their way onto store shelves. Exposure to excessively high quantities of salmonella and campylobacter bacteria have severe consequences. Numerous reports of children developing rare and life-threatening autoimmune diseases after consuming these contaminated products demonstrate the seriousness of this issue. Yet, meat companies carry on their business as usual, and continue producing products that do not meet safety standards, and therefore pose a serious threat to American adults and children. Meat Producers Routinely Violate Food Safety Regulations The USDA has strict standards in place that are meant to regulate the number of bacteria (salmonella and otherwise) that are acceptable for meat and poultry that are to be used for human consumption. It has been found that between 2015 and 2020, many of the most well-known meat producers had levels of bacteria that well exceeded USDA standards. Koch Foods, Tyson, Perdue, Foster Farms, and Pilgrim’s Pride were all shown to approve meats and meat products that not only contained extremely high levels of bacteria, but also other debris. In some cases, workers were told to process rotting meat in with the fresh. It is believed that many of these same companies violated food safety regulations up to 145,000 times from January 2015 to August 2019 with no fines or repercussions whatsoever from the USDA. What Is Really Going into Your Meat? Employees of the 12 major meat processing plants claim that bacteria isn’t the only thing consumers are being exposed to. Many of the employees told investigators that boxes of meat were dumped into grinders without the meat ever being cleaned or checked for bacteria or spoilage. Whatever was in the box went into the grinder. This included bugs, beetles, insects, and any other type of debris they may have collected in the box during shipment. Where Are the Food Inspectors? Another major problem is that food inspectors, who are paid by the federal government to inspect the meat before it is processed, have actually been found sleeping on the job. This has been witnessed by not only the employees of the meat processing plant but also other inspectors. With them sleeping on the job, who is protecting our children from blatant exposure to dangerous, and in some cases, deadly bacteria? What Can You Do? What can you do to protect your family from exposure to the dangers of disease-causing bacteria and insect particles? First, you can boost your children’s immune systems to fight off the many different pathogens found in their environment. Add Manuka honey which has been proven to fight off drug-resistant forms of bacteria. Next, buy local! Forget buying from the large producers. Buy your meat from a small farm or local farmers market. There are meat markets in almost every community across America that provide locally grown (100% grass fed) meats that are not exposed to the numerous forms of bacteria as they are transported over long distances. The meat you’ll get is as fresh as it can be and will have minimal amounts of bacteria compared to what you would be purchasing from your “regular” grocery stores or major retailers. Sources include: ChildrensHealthDefense.org To read the original article click here.

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Scientists Examine How a Gut Infection May Produce Chronic Symptoms

AHA Publisher — Sat, 11 Jan 2020 08:00:04 +0000

Rockefeller University via EurekAlert – Sometimes the end of an intestinal infection is just the beginning of more misery. Of those who contract traveler’s diarrhea, for example, an unlucky few go on to develop irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), a chronic inflammation of the intestinal tract. Scientists aren’t sure exactly how this happens, but some think an infection may contribute to IBS by damaging the gut nervous system. A new Rockefeller study takes a close look at why neurons in the gut die and how the immune system normally protects them. Conducted with mice, the experiments described recently in Cell offer insight on IBS and could point toward potential new treatment approaches. Keeping Inflammation in Check In a healthy gut, the immune system must strike a careful balance between responding to threats and keeping that response in check to avoid damage. “Inflammation helps the gut ward off an infection, but too much of it can cause lasting harm,” says Daniel Mucida, an associate professor and head of the Laboratory of Mucosal Immunology. “Our work explores the complex mechanisms that prevent inflammatory responses from destroying neurons.” To understand the effects of an infection on the nervous system, Mucida and his colleagues gave mice a weakened form of Salmonella, a bacterium that causes food poisoning, and analyzed neurons within the intestine. They found that infection induced a long-lasting reduction of neurons, an effect they attributed to the fact these cells express two genes, Nlrp6 and Caspase 11, which can contribute to a specific type of inflammatory response. This response, in turn, can ultimately prompt the cells to undergo a form of programmed cell death. When the researchers manipulated mice to eliminate these genes specifically in neurons, they saw a decrease in the number of neurons expiring. “This mechanism of cell death has been documented in other types of cells, but never before in neurons,” says Fanny Matheis, a graduate student in the lab. “We believe these gut neurons may be the only ones to die this way.” Macrophages to the Rescue It’s not yet clear exactly how inflammation causes neurons to commit cell suicide, yet the scientists already have clues suggesting it might be possible to interfere with the process. The key may be a specialized set of gut immune cells, known as muscularis macrophages. Previous work in Mucida’s lab has shown that these cells express inflammation-fighting genes and collaborate with the neurons to keep food moving through the digestive tract. If these neurons die off, as happens in an infection, a possible result is constipation–one of a number of unpleasant IBS symptoms. In their recent report, the team demonstrate how macrophages come to the neurons’ aid during an infection, ameliorating this aspect of the disorder. Their experiments revealed that macrophages possess a certain type of receptor molecule that receives stress signals released by another set of neurons in response to an infection. Once activated, this receptor prompts the macrophage to produce molecules called polyamines, which the scientists think might interfere with the cell death process. Getting Back to Normal In other experiments, the researchers found that Salmonella infection alters the community of microbes within the guts of mice–and when they restored the animals’ intestinal flora back to normal, the neurons recovered. “Using what we learned about the macrophages, one could think about ways to disrupt the inflammatory process that kills the neurons,” says Paul Muller, a postdoctoral fellow in the lab. For instance, it might be possible to develop better treatments for IBS that work by boosting polyamine production, perhaps through diet, or by restoring gut microbial communities. Since short-term stress responses also appear to have a protective effect, Muller thinks it may also be helpful to target that system. To read the original article click here.

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Thousands of Meat Products Contaminated With Deadly Bacteria Sold Across the United States

Scientists Examine How a Gut Infection May Produce Chronic Symptoms