Very shortly, they are going to begin testing this new e-coli vaccine and we are told, that this is being done to at least in part avoid problems like Walkerton in the future.
There has been made mention in other topic discussions about the tagging and the trace back for disease etc. and I'm not convinced that the whole tagging thing isn't more of a liability issue rather than a strict food safety issue, but I digress.
I am wondering what you cattle producers think of this vaccine and what could potentially happen with respect to food safety in some of these packing plants once the vaccine is in wide-spread use? How careful are processors going to be if they know that there is less of a chance of contamination from e-coli because the animals have been vaccinated? Will standards change?
Linda
There has been made mention in other topic discussions about the tagging and the trace back for disease etc. and I'm not convinced that the whole tagging thing isn't more of a liability issue rather than a strict food safety issue, but I digress.
I am wondering what you cattle producers think of this vaccine and what could potentially happen with respect to food safety in some of these packing plants once the vaccine is in wide-spread use? How careful are processors going to be if they know that there is less of a chance of contamination from e-coli because the animals have been vaccinated? Will standards change?
Linda
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