<story><title>Why American Eggs Would Be Illegal In A British Supermarket, And Vice Versa</title><url>http://www.forbes.com/sites/nadiaarumugam/2012/10/25/why-american-eggs-would-be-illegal-in-a-british-supermarket-and-vice-versa/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sliverstorm</author><text>That&apos;s hardly amazing; I&apos;ve known since I was a child that the main source of salmonella was eggs and possibly raw chicken. In fact, I&apos;d have been hard-pressed to name another place you could get it.</text></item><item><author>Luc</author><text>&amp;#62; It&apos;s completely expected, not amazing at all.&lt;p&gt;It&apos;s amazing because it&apos;s the hens being vaccinated. Humans could get the infection from other sources, but apparently by and large don&apos;t.</text></item><item><author>user24</author><text>&amp;#62; Since the late 1990’s British farmers have been vaccinating hens against salmonella [...] Amazingly, this measure has virtually wiped out the health threat in Britain.&lt;p&gt;&quot;Amazingly&quot;? No not really! Vaccination stops disease. It&apos;s completely expected, not amazing at all.&lt;p&gt;edit: Likewise it&apos;s not &quot;amazing&quot; that cases of Diptheria, Measles, Polio, etc have been drastically reduced - by 100% in some cases - since widespread vaccination began in the USA (source: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.forbes.com/sites/matthewherper/2013/02/19/a-graphic-that-drives-home-how-vaccines-have-changed-our-world/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.forbes.com/sites/matthewherper/2013/02/19/a-graph...&lt;/a&gt; )</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pash</author><text>If you look at the data [0] on food recalls and safety warnings in the United States, you&apos;ll see that the large majority of food-borne salmonella occurs not in meat or eggs but in fruits and vegetables, particularly in ground-hugging varieties like peanuts, lettuces, peppers, and bean sprouts.&lt;p&gt;This is almost always either because (a) the vegetables are fertilized with manure (organic vegetables, in particular, carry a higher risk of fecal contamination and associated diseases) or because (b) they&apos;re processed and packed in contaminated facilities. It is a self-fulfilling irony of the regulatory regime that vegetable-processing plants, which are more likely to be contaminated, are subject to less stringent safety standards than their meat- and poultry-processing counterparts.&lt;p&gt;0. &lt;a href=&quot;http://google2.fda.gov/search?site=FDAgov-recalls&amp;#38;client=FDAgov-recalls&amp;#38;proxystylesheet=FDAgov-recalls&amp;#38;filter=0&amp;#38;getfields=*&amp;#38;sort=date:D:S:d1&amp;#38;q=Salmonella&amp;#38;requiredfields=recall_category:Food&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://google2.fda.gov/search?site=FDAgov-recalls&amp;#38;client...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Why American Eggs Would Be Illegal In A British Supermarket, And Vice Versa</title><url>http://www.forbes.com/sites/nadiaarumugam/2012/10/25/why-american-eggs-would-be-illegal-in-a-british-supermarket-and-vice-versa/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sliverstorm</author><text>That&apos;s hardly amazing; I&apos;ve known since I was a child that the main source of salmonella was eggs and possibly raw chicken. In fact, I&apos;d have been hard-pressed to name another place you could get it.</text></item><item><author>Luc</author><text>&amp;#62; It&apos;s completely expected, not amazing at all.&lt;p&gt;It&apos;s amazing because it&apos;s the hens being vaccinated. Humans could get the infection from other sources, but apparently by and large don&apos;t.</text></item><item><author>user24</author><text>&amp;#62; Since the late 1990’s British farmers have been vaccinating hens against salmonella [...] Amazingly, this measure has virtually wiped out the health threat in Britain.&lt;p&gt;&quot;Amazingly&quot;? No not really! Vaccination stops disease. It&apos;s completely expected, not amazing at all.&lt;p&gt;edit: Likewise it&apos;s not &quot;amazing&quot; that cases of Diptheria, Measles, Polio, etc have been drastically reduced - by 100% in some cases - since widespread vaccination began in the USA (source: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.forbes.com/sites/matthewherper/2013/02/19/a-graphic-that-drives-home-how-vaccines-have-changed-our-world/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.forbes.com/sites/matthewherper/2013/02/19/a-graph...&lt;/a&gt; )</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ryusage</author><text>It&apos;s a somewhat common concern with pet reptiles.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cdc.gov/features/salmonellafrogturtle&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.cdc.gov/features/salmonellafrogturtle&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>