For you food-system watchers. I've long thought that airlines
represent VAST potential markets for organic and sustainable growers
who want to market their produce directly...though it'd take some
produce pool, eh?, to supply the existing structures. And some
creative thought to build new supply structures for food enterprises
as vast as airlines represent.
I wonder what, if anything, airplane cabin air does in terms of
weakening people's resistance to /Listeria/, given the restricted O2,
the prominence of pesticides and petrochemical fumes, and the
dryness. All factors that can weaken immune systems.
peace
misha
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LISTERIA ADVISORY: AIRLINE PASSENGERS
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A ProMED-mail post
Date: Sun, 07 Feb 1999 09:09:40 -0800
From: CDPC-mail "Chin, James"
Source: Nando Net, 7 Feb 1999 [edited]
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"Culinary Foods is a major supplier to the airline industry, with its
foods showing up on almost all major [US] carriers and foreign
airlines as well."
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Chicken burritos latest product added to meat recall
Thousands of chicken burritos made by a division of food
conglomerate Tyson Foods Inc. have been recalled, the latest instance
of contamination by the deadly bacteria listeria.
The recall affects some 78 000 burritos supplied to American
Airlines at the end of last year [1988], according to a report in the
Detroit Free Press. Chicago-based Culinary Foods Inc., a unit of
Tyson Foods, is a supplier to airlines and also makes foods for
restaurants, totaling about 50 million meals per year, the paper
reported. Listeria bacteria was found in burritos sampled in Detroit,
the paper said. When ingested, the bacteria cause a disease called
listeriosis that starts out resembling intestinal flu but can lead to
death. Listeriosis primarily affects unborn children, the very young,
the elderly and people with weakened immune systems. Healthy people
are not normally sickened by it.
Officials from Culinary Foods and Arizona-based Tyson could not be
reached for comment. According to the Detroit paper, Culinary Foods is
a major supplier to the airline industry, with its foods showing up on
almost all major carriers and foreign airlines as well. Dallas-based
American Airlines stopped serving all food from Culinary Foods about a
month ago after concerns arose, the paper reported.
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Center for Integrated Ag Systems
UW-Madison College of Ag and Life Sciences
Voice: (608) 262-8018 FAX: (608) 265-3020
http://www.wisc.edu/cias
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