sanet-mg-digest Wednesday, February 10 1999 Volume 01 : Number
820
In this issue:
Listeria/airline food
GE tomato paste
Nutrient Management Plans
Help - does anyone know of a good film/video?
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Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 14:08:08 -0500
From: "Michele Gale-Sinex/CIAS, UW-Madison" <mgs@aae.wisc.edu>
Subject: Listeria/airline food
Howdy, all--
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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Michele Gale-Sinex, communications manager
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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Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 12:27:45 +0000
From: maroc@islandnet.com (Maroc)
Subject: GE tomato paste
Steve,
Interesting info on the marketing of Zeneca Ag Products tomato paste. An
amazing job if one label has garnered 62 percent of the tomato paste
market. Why are they using GE tomato for making paste? What qualities are
introduced by genetic manipulation that is useful for processing?
A close to home example I was leaning on was milk quietly shipped to a
dairy from a university farm administering rBST to the cows. When the
public learned about it the dairy's entire line of products was boycotted
until they publicly vowed not to accept the rBST-stimulated milk.
Don Maroc
Vancouver Island, Canada
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Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 15:29:00 -0500
From: Marc Safley <Marc.Safley@usda.gov>
Subject: Nutrient Management Plans
Good afternoon,
I would appreciate hearing from any or all of you on SANET-MG about the way
you currently plan your crop nutrition. Do you develop a written nutrient
balance sheet for each crop and rotation? Do you use soil tests to
determine
nutrient content of your soils? Do you analyze any manures or compost to
determine its nutrient content? Do you do this planning yourself or with
a
consultant?
Thank you in advance for your response.
Marc Safley
Natural Resources Conservation Service
marc.safley@usda.gov
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Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 15:26:20 -0800
From: Debbie Ortman <safefood@cp.duluth.mn.us>
Subject: Help - does anyone know of a good film/video?
Hi, I am looking for good film/video's on the importance
of eating organic foods, organic gardening/farming, the GE issue or
on a related topic. Does
anyone have any suggestions? A few coops have requested
this.
Thanks
Debbie Dunbar Ortman
National Field Organizer
Organic Consumers Association
3547 Haines Rd.
Duluth, MN 55811
(218) 726-1443
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