oh goodie....can someone say ready made plague?

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FDA Approves a Spray-on Virus to Keep Processed Meats ''Safe''

 

 

The FDA has approved a mix of six bacteria-killing viruses designed to be

sprayed on ready-to-eat meat and poultry products. The viruses, called

bacteriophages, kill the Listeria monocytogenes bacterium. This is the

first-ever approval of viruses as a food additive.

 

Listeria monocytogenes can cause a serious infection called listeriosis. About

2,500 people in the United States become seriously ill with listeriosis each

year, and 500 die.

 

Lunch meats are particularly vulnerable to Listeria because they are generally

not cooked or reheated after purchase.

 

Consumers will not be informed as to whether their meat and poultry products

have been treated with the spray. Intralytix, the company that produces the

virus spray, also plans to seek FDA approval for another bacteriophage product,

this one designed to kill E. coli bacteria.

 

 

 

As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both instances,

there's a twilight where everything remains seemingly unchanged, and it is in

such twilight that we must be aware of change in the air, however slight, lest

we become unwitting victims of the darkness.

William O. Douglas