In the Philippines, pork meat nowadays is the most popular/ most common food that has been eaten. That’s why we came up with this study because we want to know what are the possible bacteria present the meat. And to be fully aware of purchasing the meat. These meat products are usually sold in local or public wet markets. Pork has been implicated as a major source of food-borne illness (EFSA, 2008). Meat in the public wet market may not be well preserved or unhygienic as some products are hanged and/or openly displayed in which consumers can touch and insects can easily access to it and can cause human disease. On the other hand, in the supermarket or local markets it is well preserved and/or displayed properly that the insects cannot easily access. It is properly checked to avoid an illegal meat or hot meat. But not all meat in the Supermarket would be guaranteed the absence of any bacteria because we don't know the process of distribution of it. Some of these products may be contaminated and are still sold in the market. Handling of raw products has been shown to be critical to meat safety. Some bacteria that contaminates the pork meat namely the Escherichia coli, Salmonella spp., Staphylococcus aureus, Listeria monocytogenes, Enterococcus spp, Campylobacter spp and Streptococcus suis (Mor-mur and Yuste, 2010). In the local wet market setting …show more content…
A microbial examination revealed that the samples had higher total microbes; mean probable numbers of coli forms and E. coli and yeast and moulds. Salmonella found in 32 samples from 21 stalls. Because microbial growth/ contamination occurred during the day samples taken in the afternoon had greater total counts and contained detectable numbers of Salmonella more frequently higher than those taken in the morning. (O'Toole, D.K. World Journal of Microbiology & Biotechnology,
After 5 days the plates were removed from the cold room and the gram-negative test for Colony A on the EMB agar showed pink fisheye colonies which lead to the conclusion that the gram-negative organism within Unknown #21 was Enterobacter aerogenes. Had the pigmentation been metallic green, the organism would have been identified as Escherichia coli, and had there been no pigmentation at all a Triple Sugar Iron agar (TSI) test among other tests would have been
I expect to learn the biochemical differences in bacteria from this lab. Also, how to identify different species of bacteria. Material & Methods For the first day of the practical, an unknown specimen was provided
In Jill Kaufman’s article “Meat Packing Industry,” Kaufman analyses the meat packing crisis and controversy that occurred during the Roosevelt administration in the early 1900’s. In 1906 Author Upton Sinclair released a novel title The Jungle, which sought to critic exploited meat packing workers of that time. While his novel did stir up some commotion, his ultimate goal remained unmet. Americans were appalled at the ways he described the unsanitary methods and procedures of the meat packing industry. This resulted in stricter policies and inspections being put in place; however, whether or not the industry was truly unhygienic and unsanitary remained disputed.
Winnable Battle- Safe Food Objectives: Approximately 1 of 6 people in America get sick from eating contaminated food. Some people recover and few others may suffer from complication such as kidney failure, miscarriage or brain and nerve damage (10 Colorado winnable battles). In Colorado, there is at least 41% of foodborne outbreaks report and investigation each year. This is an enormous number that underscores the need for vigilance and highlights the importance of the food safety programs to identify foodborne illnesses (10 Colorado winnable battles).
Paul Starobin’s “Pork: A Time Honored Tradition Lives On” discusses the control exerted upon local appropriations by the Legislative Branch. The author points the divide the practice of “porking” creates within the House, fiscal conservatives are fundamentally against it, while some democrats support the action. Those in opposed to the method find that it creates budget inefficiencies because the federal funding is being used to finance local projects and special interests, which is generally done for political gain. However, those in favor, believe, as elected officials, their duty is to fight for the benefits of the people and areas they were chosen to represent. In reality, there needs to be a healthy balance between the two sides, central
The Meatpacking District became a very dangerous area once the automobile was invented because it interfered with the elevated freight trains. Because the trains carried merchandises essential to the lives of most New Yorkers, freight trains were given the right of way to stop wherever they please just to make a delivery. Thus, a ten-car train would be blocking traffic just to deliver the goods. It most likely took longer than 30 minutes to unload the train of the goods to whichever business it delivered to, so the traffic gets overbearingly crowded. Besides the terrible congestion, regular New Yorkers would be in this area because most markets would be located there, so that they could get fresh produce from the local slaughterhouses.
Food is the sustaining life force that drives the human race forwards from day to day. As daily consumers of food products, it is automatically expected that the producers of such important products aim to produce goods that will help the consumer and attribute to their health. Unfortunately, this is not always the case. At the turn of the twentieth century, food sanitation in factories was at an all time low. Adding to this issue were the harsh conditions in which the workers were forced to work in.
Unfortunately, washing their hands before and after work with clean water were a very unusual thing to do. Thus, all the dirt, germ and sweat on their hands that they produced during the day would follow the meat packing process and became products for consumption. Unexpectedly, they would can or make sausage with any type of meat that that was spoiled. The author declared in the book, “Jonas had told them how the meat that was taken out of pickle would often be found sour, and how they would rub it up with soda to take away the smell...giving to any sort of meat, fresh or salted, whole or chopped, any color and any flavor and any odor they chose.” (The Jungle, Sinclair).
Salmonella is commonly found in cows and raw milk, poultry, pigs, pets and wild
Jane and Akiko: Fertility and DES In the novel, My Year of Meats! Ozeki portrays Jane Takagi Little and Akiko Ueno personal hardships of conceiving a child. The passage taken from chapter 11 describes Akiko being hospitalized after being “battered and bruised” by her husband and later became convinced that she was pregnant and “it was a miracle of sorts” (Ozeki 305-06). In the entry of the passage, Akiko’s states, “I feel wonderful…” gives the allusion of her almost mythical description of her conception. Akiko portrays herself looking at her “cleavages and shiftings.”
In the laboratory, identification of an unknown bacterium is often necessary. In the lab, a random sample consisting of three different bacteria was selected. The sample contained one gram-positive, one gram-negative paracolon, and one gram-negative coliform. The purpose of the experiment is to identify each of the three species that the mixture contained. After receiving an unknown mixture, the sample was streaked for isolation onto TSA, blood agar, and MacConkey plates.
The article “Is It Possible to be a Conscientious Meat Eater,” written by Sunaura Taylor and Alexander Taylor, looked like a very convincing argument. “Is It Possible to be a Conscientious meat eater” discusses that processed meat is bad for the world, and how it affects us and our surrounding environments in a negative outcome. The one thing I enjoyed reading from this article was the supportive use of evidence through facts to support the author’s thesis statement. However I would argue that the authors, when writing this, didn’t do a thorough job on keeping the subject professional, detailed, unbiased, and citing the sources for their information.
Instead, big companies are choosing to risk their client’s health by feeding animals what they are not supposed to eat and pumping them with e Coli and stuffing them in a tiny barn where they can’t flap a wing and are forced to stand in feces which may or may not be their own . In The Jungle, they described how they treated dead animal meat, now just imagine how they must have treated the alive animals. This next quote is describing how they kept the meat . “Every Spring they did it; and in the barrels there would be dirt and rust and old nails and stale water- and cartload after cartload of it would be taken up and dumped into the hoppers with fresh meat, and sent out to the public’s breakfast” (Pg. 143, The Jungle)
'Lamb to the Slaughter ' is a story about the murder of police detective Patrick Maloney by his wife Mary. She got angry after Patrick her husband said that he 's leaving her and their unborn child, Mary quickly regains her senses after fatally killing him with the leg of lamb. Then she had the perfect idea she feed the leg to the police tog get rid of the evidence so they wouldn 't find anything that traces back to
In a study by Vollard A.M., Ali S., van Asten H.A., Ismid I.S., Widjaja S., Visser L.G., Surjadi C.h., and van Dissel J.T. on “Risk Factors for Transmission of Food-borne Illness in Restaurants and Street vendors in Jakarta, Indonesia”, the risk factors of contracting food borne diseases were affected by poor hand washing hygiene of the food handlers (street vendors), further relating to the fact that the food handlers may come in direct contact with the food by using their bare hands when handling the food, and also their low educational level which hinders them from the basic knowledge of proper personal hygiene which led to faecal contamination of drinking water, dish water and ice cube. A study by M.P. Azanza, C. Gatchalian, and M. Ortega,