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THIS WEEK, BRITAIN’S Food Standards Agency issued a warning about the dangers of washing raw chicken.
In Britain, 44% of people wash raw chicken before they cook it, but figures from Safefood for the Republic of Ireland show that more than half – or 57% – of Irish people do the same.
Not surprisingly, two thirds said they do it because their mammies (or families in general) have always washed it under the tap, while one in five said they do it because they saw it on TV.
The respondents in this survey were those who said they were responsible for cooking at home and 94% of them said they would describe themselves as “confident” in their cooking skills.
Well, they’d want to listen up now, because our own Food Safety Authority has said they recommend the same as their counterparts in the UK.
Jane Ryder of the FSAI told TheJournal.ie that those who wash raw chicken are “just splashing all of the campylobacter and germs from the chicken all over the kitchen”.
Campylobacter is the main cause of food poisoning in Ireland and the number of cases peaks in the summer months.
Last year, 2, 388 people became ill because of it with the majority of these cases being in the 0-4 years and 20-24 years age ranges. For most people, it means a couple of days with a dodgy tummy, but babies, the elderly and other vulnerable people could become seriously ill because of the bacteria.
It can also cause Guillain-Barre syndrome, which can leave victims paralysed.
“Cooking kills campylobacter but when you’ve splashed it all on your counter, you’re not going to cook your counter afterwards,” Ryder said. “No one thinks about getting food poisoning from it.”
Her advice is to avoid cross contamination by cooking your raw chicken directly from the container or bag it came in, use separate utensils and cutting boards for chicken and other foods and wash those hands.
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it seems hash and weed is all the guards can get STOP wasting time going afterthosedrugs i would think all resorces and time should be spent trying to get as much herion and cocaine of the streets they are the problem drugs people will do crazy things to get there hands on those drugs when they have no cash which is always, com on get your act together enough is enough earn your wage end of
@Danny
I would like to point out that I work with drug addicts every day! Class B (HASH)has longer lasting and probably even worse effects than the various Heroin’s, Crack’s , amphetamine’s that are out there
Long term use makes people so paranoid, and it’s a very different situation then that most perceive Class B the calming relaxing effects that we see on TV
If u think our Law Enforcers are wasting their time Then I suggest u have a good think about this 1, if your child had been smoking this (SHITE is how i would describe it ) for years and their once intelligent curious minds were active now there brains are so fried that you can’t even have a simple conversation with them , then maybe u would think twice !!!!!
Class A,B, &C are all as bad as each other,
Illegal Importers, Dealers of banned illegal substances should not be jailed its too good for them, they should be made work day in day out in homes where these poor folk are detained due to drug induced mental health issues! That would teach them!
I call bullshit Anita, how can you put cannabis in the same category as heroin? Are you for real? I haven’t heard of anyone dying of a cannabis overdose. Also, cannabis doesn’t necessarily make people paranoid, it affects people differently. And you work with these people? God help them.
Lol @ hash addicts
Cannabis is a gateway drug which not always but can often lead to the use of heavier class A drugs. By inhibiting the gateway drug they are still lessening the impact and demand for class A drugs. ‘nipping it in the bud’ as such.
Good work again by Customs and police.
I hope they throw away the key.
Great news.. will hopefully drive up the price for all the stoners.
thats a lot of peoples medicine gone down the drain :(
Ah Jesus, my 3 million spot is gone. My weekend is ruined
The two Irish are a couple who are very well known in the Cork city chattering classes brigade. Your man has a penchant for fast expensive cars. Now everyone knows how he could afford them.
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