Lawsuit: COVID-19-contaminated meat carcasses are packaged, carried to consumers

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

A non-profit physician’s group is asking a federal court to immediately order meat and poultry processing plants to test their products for COVID-19, and make the results of their tests public.

Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM), a group that advocates for reducing reliance on animals for scientific research and for preventive medicine, as well as monitors federal food policy, asked for the mandate in a lawsuit filed Wednesday against the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).

The filing comes as Chinese authorities report that routine sample inspections of imported chicken wings from Brazil showed contamination with COVID-19, as did packaging on shrimp from Ecuador.

In its complaint, PCRM said the USDA wrongly rejected a petition that it filed in May asking to implement new meat and poultry testing requirements for COVID-19, as well as labeling to warn consumers that meat could carry the virus. The organization also claims the agency failed to respond to its requests for information under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/lawsuit-covid-19-contaminated-meat-carcasses-packaged-carried-to-consumers-225459717.html

[keithbvadu2]

1. Trump says: 'back to work'.

[hlthe2b]

2. Wash your hands after handling and cook the hell out of it.

Just assume it is contaminated, but like any other organism, bacterial, viral, or parasitic, cooking thoroughly to an interior temp of 165 F will definitely inactivate/kill what would infect you.

[Meowmee]

3. Cook and or nuke your food

I hope they realize grains/ veggies etc could be contaminated as well. It is not clear to me that the levels of virus were capable of transmitting it that way yet.

[Hekate]

4. KnR