Fresh eggs from recall farms being pasteurized, processed (For Consumption)

[onehandle]

Source: CNN

(CNN) -- Fresh eggs being produced by farms at the heart of a massive recall are making their way to consumers via facilities that pasteurize the eggs, process them and rid them of any possible salmonella.

"The fresh eggs from the recalled farms are being diverted to USDA-approved facilities for pasteurization," Food and Drug Administration spokeswoman Patricia El-Hinnawy said Wednesday.

A half-billion eggs were recalled by Wright County Egg and Hillandale Farms during the salmonella scare.

Fresh eggs produced at those farms since the recall are being sold to "breaking plants" that break the eggshells, pasteurize the eggs and turn them into liquid or other form used in a variety of products, officials said.

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/08/25/eggs.pasteurized.processed/index.html

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MSNBC just said that they will end up in mayonnaise, ice cream and other foods.

Ick. I avoid foods with egg, dairy and meat processed into them. I will continue this practice.

[FarPoint]

1. I believe that the pasteurization is effective.

That's why we use pasteurization in the first place....Makes perfect sense...no need to waste the eggs.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

16. I ride a dinosaur to the pasteurization plant every morning.

[salvorhardin]

2. I'm curious

Why is it icky if the eggs have been pasteurized? Would you have the same problem drinking water from a stream with giardia in it that has been boiled?

[hlthe2b]

3. That is allowable and pastuerization will render them safe...n/t

[madrchsod]

4. there would`t a big problem if people would cook eggs throughly

and handle them properly. eating eggs that are not cooked properly or handling eggs that contaminate other foods is the real problem.

[EFerrari]

6. I read that the UK has all but eliminated salmonella by using a vaccine.

The US industry fought off being mandated to use one.

[salvorhardin]

7. That's true, though I'm not sure if the industry fought it off

After all, the cost would have been trivial. This NY Times article says it would have resulted in an extra penny per dozen eggs for consumers.

Faced with a crisis more than a decade ago in which thousands of people were sickened from salmonella in infected eggs, farmers in Britain began vaccinating their hens against the bacteria. That simple but decisive step virtually wiped out the health threat.

But when American regulators created new egg safety rules that went into effect last month, they declared that there was not enough evidence to conclude that vaccinating hens against salmonella would prevent people from getting sick. The Food and Drug Administration decided not to mandate vaccination of hens — a precaution that would cost less than a penny per a dozen eggs.

Now, consumers have been shaken by one of the largest egg recalls ever, involving nearly 550 million eggs from two Iowa producers, after a nationwide outbreak of thousands of cases of salmonella was traced to eggs contaminated with the bacteria.

The F.D.A. has said that if its egg safety rules had gone into effect earlier, the crisis might have been averted. Those rules include regular testing for contamination, cleanliness standards for henhouses and refrigeration requirements, all of which experts say are necessary.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/25/business/25vaccine.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all

Personally, I wonder if all the manufactured controversy surrounding vaccine safety in the U.S. didn't affect the FDA's decision to not require the vaccine. In any case, I think it was a monumentally stupid decision even though the FDA says they didn't require it because they didn't have good data to support its efficacy.

[KamaAina]

17. "all the manufactured controversy surrounding vaccine safety in the U.S."

The UK is actually the world capital of manufactured controversy surrounding vaccine safety. (google "Andrew Wakefield" for starters)

[ooglymoogly]

19. But many of us like their eggs 'easy over' or 'soft boiled'

to dunk bacon and toast into.

[Ian David]

5. I don't have a problem with this. n/t

[Yeahyeah]

8. Seems like a chickenshit solution.

[closeupready]

9. I have no problem with this.

n/t

[petronius]

10. This makes sense, but what about the 500 million eggs that were actually recalled?

How were they disposed of? It may have been mentioned somewhere, but I've missed it...

[mike r]

15. Grocery stores are supposed to throw them away

as in the dumpsters.

[Critters2]

11. The only solution, really, is to stop producing eggs in these factories,

and go back to letting animals live decent lives.

Please, buy local, free range eggs. Do NOT support DeCoster and his ilk!

[Gormy Cuss]

18. The only reason I'm disgusted by the pasteurization for other uses is it limits DeCoster's loss

and I'd prefer that DeCoster take the biggest hit possible. Battery cages should be outlawed.

[OhioChick]

12. Oh lovely n/t

[arikara]

13. That is totally disgusting

So now they can keep chickens crammed together in stressed, filthy, cruel conditions, feed them crap to produce diseased eggs, then instead of having to clean up their disgusting factory farms they are allowed to simply pasteurize the eggs and use them in some other food like substance. Well that does it, mayonnaise is one of the few processed so-called "foods" that I still occasionally use. I will now be making my own, its not that hard and then I bloody well know whats in it.

And next they'll be wanting to vaccinate the poor miserable birds. No wonder there is a cancer epidemic, people are barely surviving on a diet of this lifeless toxic shit.

Jesus Christ on a trailer hitch but I am totally appalled.

:puke:

[tabatha]

14. I know where to get fresh, free range chicken eggs

right at the farm. No more store-bought for me.
We could put factory farms out of business by not buying their eggs or any egg-products.

[uppityperson]

20. k&r for not wasting food, figuring out how to safely use these.