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Pork producers should implement
food safety risk inanagernnt pro aa.
by Rick Keri
ork . Producers in
Ontario should
implement a. food'
safety risk manaerent
program said aspeaker
from, they, department of
food sciences at the
University of Guelph at a
regent area seminals
Citing evidence from
various media sources! Dr,
Douglas Powell said
reports relating to raod
safety have increased by
200 per Gent during the
past five years:
"Tlie concept of. food -
born illnesses has entered
the public's conscious-
ness.' said Dr, trowel! in
.his. presentation, • to an
audience of approximately
100, at the Centralia Swine
Research Update, held at
the JirktonWoodham
Community Centre Jan.
25.
He said, his research
leads himto believe the
change in the public~ per-
ception regarding. food
safety , began in. Jan.. 19
1993, ' when the. health
department in' Washington
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State issued the first Warta same day the Jack-iin-thee-
inglinkingconsumption--of Box announcement was
undercooked hamburgers made, He said Clinton, the
with an outbreak of B. coli . first "baby -boomer" presi- -
0157, sotntimes known. as . dentit personified the aging,
hamburger disease. He reasonably affluent baby
said the outbreak linked boomer population, which
with the Jack was in search
in the -Boit of a fortritain
chain of of youth,•
restaurants increasing. the
eventually, c o n,c, e r n
killed four ;'° ' ° about food”
young people' t• safety, . -
and sickened D r . ,
over 700- . , Powell said
The Jaekinn : the public's
the -Box out-
break cata-
pulted to the
.top of .tire
public agenda Or., Douglas ,Powell of tered a trend
in the 'United the Food 3otenceS of scrutiny in
States, said D o p a' r t m e, n t,.the food
Dr. Powell, University of Guelph, i n'd u s t r y
because the (Kew photo) which., starts
story had all with .the pub -
the elements of a. drama; • lic and works its. way back
children were involved, to fanners via food manu-
facturers and processors.
Cautioning the pork
producers not” to under
estimate -the power inher-
ent.
nterent' in- that scrutiny, he
cited a 1996 food -poison-
ing case involving frozen
hamburger patties in
Denver.
response '- to
the Jaek-in
the -Box, out-
break has fos-
the risk was unfamiliar;
and a sctrse of outrage
developed because •gov-.
ernment inspection sys-
terms were inadequate.
Coincidently, said
Powell, Bill Clinton was
inaugurated' as president of
the United. States on the
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A victim of that out-
break, said Powell, was a.
,male nurse, who made the
connection between his if#-
ness and recently con-
sumed hamburgers. He
said the nurse took frozen
samples of the suspected
hamburger. patties, to a
research centre, where
DNA testing was used .•to
affirm the patties caused
the man's sickness. An
immediate regal of patties
manufactured by Hudson,
Foods was ' ordered and
10,000 pounds of meat
was recalled. 'That recall
mushroomed ir►to a. recall
totalling 21 million pounds
• of hamburger. Three weeks
later, he said the firm, .
which had sales in access
of SI billion, sold at "fire -
sale" prices to Tyson
Foods, a giant -in the .U,S
food processing industry,
"Why? Because of all
the public. attention.",
The -Hudson story;,
reported deaths in Japan
from ingesting spoiled
radish sprouts; 21 deaths
attributedto eating at a
church picnic in Scotland
and 18.: elderly peopleb•
'dying in London nursing
homes°are but some of the '
stories , that- have
entrenched food safety in
the minds of the public;
said. Powell. .
The, public knows that '
any. reported outbreak is
just, ,the "tip of the ice-
berg," he said. adding,.
"The public is paying
attention,"
Processors and mane
facturers,with good man-.
agement practices, are
heeding the message con-
tained in the public's con-
,cerri andare- looking far-
ther down the line to ,the,
producer in order to ensure
safe °,food. practices..
Consumers also are look-
ing towardfood producers •
with a Critical eye.
"They have.. the percep•
-
tion .that if something is
.not natural then: it's. not
safe"
This stemmed from the
scare imposed en people -
see 'Food', page 31
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