I really feel sad for these families, but I honestly don't know where they're going wrong. I feed raw despite the warnings about the immunocompromised. I've been immunocompromised my whole life. I've had food poisoning one time, and that was tuna salad when I was 22-yrs old.
I wasn't feeding raw food to dogs back then. I feed raw all the time now. Even my big dog is immunocompromised since he has Addison's disease. Despite our immune issues, we've had absolutely NO problems out of their food, and he's got a big beard that (despite getting rinsed off after every meal/only actually washed once a week) could harbor all kind of nasty things. Nope. No foodborne diseases here.
So what are all these people doing wrong that gives the anti-raw-feeding people so much alarmist ammunition?
Should You Feed Raw Pet Food? Consumer Reports Weighs In
A Salmonella outbreak in Minnesota that is linked to recalled raw pet food is highlighting a question that pet owners face. Should you feed your pet raw food? Consumer Reports weighs in.
In that outbreak, two children were sickened after pets in their home were fed Raws for Paws ground turkey pet food. One of the children was hospitalized with osteomyelitis, a serious and painful bone infection that can cause fractures later in life.
Sales of raw frozen and refrigerated pet foods has grown by 263% from 2011 to 2017, but those diets are controversial. Some vets say that those products are not nutritionally balanced. The products can contain raw organ meats, whole or crushed animal or fish bones, unpasteurized milk, uncooked eggs, and raw produce.
Any raw meat can be contaminated with pathogenic bacteria. That’s why cooks are warned to treat all raw meat in the kitchen as a potentially hazardous food. Many serious and deadly food poisoning outbreaks have been linked to raw and undercooked meats, poultry, and seafood in the past few years. And raw milk and raw eggs have been linked to many foodborne illness outbreaks as well.
Studies bear this out. A study published in Vet Record in December 2017 showed that 28 of 35 commercial frozen raw meat diets from eight different brands were contaminated with antibiotic-resistant E. coli bacteria. Eight of those samples tested positive for E. coli O157:H7, a shiga toxin-producing strain that can cause serious illness, including hemolytic uremic syndrome, and death. Samples also tested positive for Salmonella (20% of products) and Listeria monocytogenes bacteria (54% of products). The raw pet food that was not frozen also contained parasites, including Toxoplasma gondii.
Read the rest at: https://foodpoisoningbulletin.com/2018/feed-raw-pet-food-consumer-reports/