I read an article about Con Agra from the Lincoln Journal Star. They chose to voluntarily shut down their plant in Missouri, because it is the plant the makes all their chicken pot pies. They shut it down due to salmonella concerns. Health officials said the pot pies could be linked to over 130 cases of salmonella in thirty states. Omaha workers from the Con Agra headquarters are telling people not to eat the chicken or turkey pot pies until these government investigations inquiries are sustained. Even though the officials from Con Agra told everyone if the pot pies were cooked properly, then they will be fine to eat. Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Missouri are the top three states of salmonella cases as of now. Senior citizens and young children are most prone to it, because of their weak immune systems. Even though there are over 600 deaths a year due to salmonella, there has been no deaths linked to these pot pies. This is not the first time Con Agra had had salmonella problems. Last year they had to recall all their peanut butter, because of a different type of salmonella outbreak. This bad peanut butter resulted in over six hundred deaths in forty seven states! They finally reissued it this past August. They are still fighting law suits from it; Con Agra is trying to prevent this from happening again. They are not recalling the pot pies yet though. They are, however, supplying customers with refunds if they would like them. The most important concern for Con Agra is reissuing new cooking instructions to help prevent bad health cases. It is a major problem if you cook the pot pies in the microwave, especially because some microwaves are not as strong as others. They are planning on adding instructions for high voltage microwaves and low voltage microwaves. Since microwaves are already tricky on how to tell if your food is done or not, Con Agra also added that the pot pies should be perfectly fine when you see steam come out of them.
Wednesday, October 10, 2007
Chicken Pot Pie: Samonella?
I read an article about Con Agra from the Lincoln Journal Star. They chose to voluntarily shut down their plant in Missouri, because it is the plant the makes all their chicken pot pies. They shut it down due to salmonella concerns. Health officials said the pot pies could be linked to over 130 cases of salmonella in thirty states. Omaha workers from the Con Agra headquarters are telling people not to eat the chicken or turkey pot pies until these government investigations inquiries are sustained. Even though the officials from Con Agra told everyone if the pot pies were cooked properly, then they will be fine to eat. Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Missouri are the top three states of salmonella cases as of now. Senior citizens and young children are most prone to it, because of their weak immune systems. Even though there are over 600 deaths a year due to salmonella, there has been no deaths linked to these pot pies. This is not the first time Con Agra had had salmonella problems. Last year they had to recall all their peanut butter, because of a different type of salmonella outbreak. This bad peanut butter resulted in over six hundred deaths in forty seven states! They finally reissued it this past August. They are still fighting law suits from it; Con Agra is trying to prevent this from happening again. They are not recalling the pot pies yet though. They are, however, supplying customers with refunds if they would like them. The most important concern for Con Agra is reissuing new cooking instructions to help prevent bad health cases. It is a major problem if you cook the pot pies in the microwave, especially because some microwaves are not as strong as others. They are planning on adding instructions for high voltage microwaves and low voltage microwaves. Since microwaves are already tricky on how to tell if your food is done or not, Con Agra also added that the pot pies should be perfectly fine when you see steam come out of them.
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