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Subscribe to RSSHealth officials say 179 people have been sickened with salmonella food poisoning linked to broiled chicken liver products recalled by a New York food processor.
Between April 1 and Nov. 16, people in six states fell ill with Salmonella Heidelberg infections tied to chicken livers produced by Schreiber Processing Corp. of Maspeth, N.Y. The U.S. Department of Agriculture notified consumers that an undetermined amount of broiled products had been recalled because of contamination with the common strain of the foodborne pathogen. At the time, the agency said the products were linked to a cluster of illnesses in New York and New Jersey.
Illnesses include 99 in New York, 61 in New Jersey, 10 in Pennsylvania, six in Maryland, two in Ohio and one in Minnesota. Products linked to the outbreak were also sold in Rhode Island and Florida, though no cases have been reported there.
The USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service said in a statement that the products appeared to be ready to eat, but were actually only partially cooked. Illnesses were also linked to chopped liver made from the products, FSIS said.
FSIS officials said that the Salmonella Heidelberg strain linked to the chicken livers was not the same strain detected in ground turkey recalled earlier this year by meat giant Cargill Meat Solutions Corp.
The recalled products include 10-pound boxes of Meal Mart Broiled Chicken liver and 10 pound boxes of loose packed broiled chicken liver. Each box or bag of product bears the establishment number P-787 inside the USDA mark of inspection.
Salmonella infections typically cause diarrhea, abdominal cramps and fever within six to 72 hours of eating contaminated food. Additional symptoms might include chills, headache, nausea and vomiting that can last up to a week.
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It is my experience that even fresh cooked and untainted livers cause chills and nausea.
Ain't that the truth. I feed my dogs a raw diet (and livers are a part of that)...and I marvel every single week when I'm able to buy chicken livers and chicken feet at the same store I buy groceries for my family. Why, oh why, would anyone ever be THAT hungry. ICK.
I know that they are considered a "delicacy" in many other countries, but I'm with you people, ugh! I admit that I've eaten chicken liver, and it really doesn't taste good at all.
But then again, caviar makes me ill too. :)
"... the products appeared to be ready to eat..."
Not even to a skunk.
I make it a point not to eat organs used as a filter. Actually let me reword that. I make it a point to not eat organs....
The liver rates right up there with the gizzard.
When I read the headline, I was certain the story was about politicians in DC.
It amazes me that in our modern society, where we know what the liver does, people still eat it.
may as well go knaw on a used air filter and chase it down with cigarette butts.
U dont know what good is all about. Fried chicken livers (with onions and spices) is a real delicacy. In Usa you rather feed it to your cat. U have it too good.
We do have it good, we don't like barbecue dog either.
I find it hard to believe there are 170 people in the US that like to eat livers.
I'm with you on that one....however, I live in the South, and every stinkin' resturant that serves any kind of poultry that's came within 3 feet of a deep fat fryer has livers on the menu. My parents ate them every week while I was growing up and they disgusted me. Both of my older brothers and their families eat them and so does my in-laws. I worked for Con Agra for a number of years as a manager in the pre-pack dept (where they actually cut up the birds and package them) and the people that worked there loved them.....it took me almost 4 years to even eat chicken again after I started there and till this day I will only eat all white meat, usually tenders and it MUST be baked not fried. Fried chicken livers are nothing but deep fried blood clots! (I know they're really not but look at them!) ick!
In the North we prefer our livers with Fava beans and a nice Chianti.
Only an idiot would eat chicken livers in the first place.
I'm with you on that. Of all the things on this earth to eat why choose that?
I love chicken livers! And gizzards! I got a taste for them when I worked at Grandy's as a teen.
Of course, boiling them is horrifying. They should be battered and deep-fried.
Lots of things we used to eat are now so ill handled and contaminated it is best not to eat them at all. I am a senior and grew up eating liver of all kinds and raw oysters and heart and tongue and lots of other stuff that I would not touch with a ten foot pole now. Self regulation of the food industry has done this, they don't care what happens because you have already bought it and the money is all they care about.
Gizzards, hearts, and sometimes chicken livers, sauteed in olive oil with some Italian seasoning, salt and pepper. Mmmm..mmmm...mmm...tasty!
I believe that says bRoiled not boiled. To those deriding others for eating liver, perhaps you aren't aware that it is some of the cheapest protein you can buy other than eggs. And, yes, for those who obviously have never tried them, cooked correctly they are good.
The only way I like it is Liver Pâté.
Exactly. I've eaten them all my life, know people who lived well into their 90's, and some even till 107 years old, some former slaves who had eaten this type meat ALL their lives. Wonder how they lived to be so old, if it's such a killer.
I love livers, gizzards, and hearts, long as they are all cooked correctly.
It's mostly those "other" people on here acting all ignorant, like something is so deathly wrong with eating such foods. Isn't Pate, liver food?
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i agree with u moshuluu. Never let a good liver go to waste. when i lived in africa food was good and organic. No fuss, cooked correct it will melt in your mouth.
dumb bastar#s prob didn't nuke em before eating..just eat them straight out of the bag.
Q. What did the vomit say to the stool?
A. "What am I? Chopped liver?"
Fried "lizards" and gizzards are great! I also love chopped liver, lox, and bagels.
There is great irony in this story. "Livers and gizzards and hearts, OH MY!"
Add one more to the total. I'm sick just thinking of eating liver of any kind. They are biofilters. ICKKKK!!!!!! No viscera - period.
We need to continue to downsize the FDA. Those guys interfering with how meat is
processed is costing too much of our tax dollars! Quit bothering the meat
processors with your stupid rules so they can get that meat on the supermarket
shelves quickly! Uh, just don’t be the first one to eat when you buy it.
Chicken livers, properly prepared with shallots, hardboiled eggs and and flambeed in cognac, processed into a nice, smooth spread, are pretty darn tasty. Makes me want to go out and buy some raw chicken livers today. MMMMMMMMMMM....sweet, sweet chicken livers!
Ain't nuttin bettern' a mess of fried chicken livers, with a side of mashed taters and some brown gravy.
Except maybe a thick cut of fried calves liver simmered in gravy with onions. Add some brains, chitlins, pickled pig feet, or tripe an' you got yerself some vittles. Don't forget the collards an' cornbread drippin in butter and sorghum molasses.
This is the kind of thing that the GOP wants. I think they want to poison us off by limiting oversight and giving business power to self regulate.
Don't doubt that a bit!
Goodness, get a life. Or, get treatment for your OCD.
eeewww ! who eats chicken livers, totally gross, man.
Don't knock it til you've tried it. I prefer gizzards and hearts, though. Now I'm getting a craving for them. Think I'll stop at the store today and pick some up.
Just the thought of eating chicken liver sickens me!
You obviously live too high on the hog.
That's what you get for eating biofilters in the first place! Gross think about what livers do in the first place, might as well eat colons too.
Come on down to Irmo, SC and join them for the Chittlin' Strut in October. Actually small intestines, but who cares. Most natural sausage casings are made from hog intestines. So who's eating intestines now?
lol still not me jb! lol I don't eat pork. No I'm not a vegetarian, I just don't eat certain body parts or types of meat.
ask argentines, char-grilled intestines are very popular at their "parrillas" I grew up eating pretty much all organs, some I still like (kidney, liver, blood sausage) but I would not eat here in the USA, when I go home I go to the meat market and I'd buy meat from grass feed/free roaming cows.
Or some pu$$y, that seems like a white mans delicacy! lol....
All of this talk about cutting government spending- this will be an ever increasing result. There are already too few government food inspectors. Safe food, water, and air are what you are giving up when you cut government spending- and that is so the wealthy can have a tax cut.
My Mother's side of the family came from the Baltimore area, and when I was a kid I remember her and my Grandmother purchasing fresh chicken livers in plastic tubs. They would saute them with onions, garlic, white wine, etc., and really enjoy them.
Don't people know what livers are? They're basically your bodies equivalent of the oil filter in your car. It baffles me why people would eat them. Leave em for the cat food.
I wouldn't feed them to my cats either, maybe the dog since he eats poop any way ;)
My cat was always too smart to touch them...the dogs on the other hand, they love them...but as another poster said, dogs DO eat poop.
Why would anyone eat liver, it is where all the bad stuff in the body goes. YCCK.
Oh so now chicken livers are horrible??
What happens if I eat a GREEN SALAD WITH CONTAMINATED VEGGIES????
Oh, I forgot, the same thing!!!
If the GOp / NutTParty get their way we can drive this number up to the thousands..
Pan seared with sherry, mushrooms and bacon.
Eeek, just the smell of them makes me nauseous. I literally have to get up and sit in the bathroom when people at my table order them at Benihana, because looking at chicken liver makes me lose my appetite, but smelling it while it is cooking literally turns my stomach.
We raise our own chickens, and I would never eat any of the internal organs. I find it hard to believe that people would voluntarily eat the internal organs of commercially grown chickens.
The article says that the loathsome livers came in 10-pound boxes!
Remember the words of Hannibal Lecter:
A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti.
I'm so glad I don't partake of the killing and toture of animals to satisfy gluttony. And right, livers are like oil filters. Disease catchers. Ugh!!! On average vegetarians out live carnivores by 10 years and in a much healthier state.
And here I thought vegetarians would have beaten to death early in life for being so obnoxious.... ;)
Chicken livers? Lots of people around here eat them. But what I don't understand is one organ that many people enjoy and that I could never keep down -
BRAIIIIIINS!
i didnit know anyone ate chicken livers,but i suppose they may have great food value.
Ack. Brains are gross...feed those to the dogs too and I can't even stand to be in the room when they eat them.