date:Dec 06, 2012
ops and 50 of which were ground pork, found relatively low levels of contamination for the bugs that regularly make headlines, like Salmonella and Listeria monocytogenes, but a whopping 69 percent of these samples were positive for Yersinia enterocolitica, which can also make people sick.
Reactions to the report were all over the board. As we noted, Congresswoman Louise Slaughter (D-NY) called the results simply terrifying, The U.S. Department of Agriculture said the study showed that pork is s