Since October last year, Denmark has suffered two big outbreaks of salmonella poisoning from Danish sausages. Four people have died as a result of eating ‘medister’ sausage, and at least 79 have been hospitalised with stomach infections, according to the national disease control centre Statens Serum Institut.
Investigators have traced the deadly bacteria to two pork slaughterhouses in Jutland and Zealand. However, Dr Kare Molbak of the Statens Serum Institut says they can’t be absolutely sure the salmonella originated only in those two spots. The problem could be more widespread in the nation’s pork industry.
In a statement reported by the Copenhagen Post, Molbak confirmed: “There are grounds for concern and this time we are in no doubt that the salmonella comes from Danish pork.”
Even Denmark’s Food Standard Regulation and Control Committee admits the nation’s food inspection system is failing to do its job. Committee chairman Jorgen Hojmark suggests better cooperation between authorities and the slaughterhouses and butchers will go a long way to solve potential food poisoning.
But the deputy director of the Danish Meat Association, Erik Bisgaard Madsen, insists that he’s “99 per cent certain” that the salmonella outbreak did not originate from one of his association’s members. However, a third salmonella outbreak in the spring of 2008 killed six and sent more than 1,200 people to hospital.
Salmonella is quite dangerous, specially when you ate foods infected with this bacteria. i had a friend who was hospitalized due to salmonella/food poisoning and he almost died from it.
salmonella is a very dangerous and deadly bacteria. foods that are contaminated with it should be disposed immediately.
I have been only eating fish, for years, so no worries of dead pig, dead cow diseases coming my way. Of course, I heard fish can have high levels of mercury in them.
It comes from South of Alps, ill meat as the brainless people who live there.
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We are also having salmonella everywhere in America! Meat, peppers, tomatoes, peanuts, everything!
There is supposed to be a global food shortage coming, didn’t you know? Destroy the food! Run the farmers out of business!
My advice for your sausages is to purchase them at a deep discount when they are trying to destroy them. Or ask for them for free. (Government regulations will probably try to make this illegal though, “for your protection”.) Then when you get home, try washing your hands occasionally as well as COOKING them. I could have been certain salmonella was destroyed at only 66 degrees C…
And another question – where did meat come from? ;-)
Somewhere from EU I assume….
Guess who is making the sausages in Denmark?