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Thread #41114   Message #592303
Posted By: JohnInKansas
14-Nov-01 - 06:11 AM
Thread Name: BS: Frozen pork chops
Subject: RE: BS: Frozen pork chops
Consensus around my neighborhood is that there is little danger of trichinosis from domestic pork, since enforcements of regulations against feeding uncooked slop to the hawgs. Since some folk do slop their hawgs with whatever's leftover from the kitchen, cautious people do try to be sure their pork is well done.

Most recent cases I've heard of have been from people trying to make "jerky" out of bear meat - and the occasional under-roasted possum. (sorry Cleigh!).

Any meat that eats meat can transmit it. Chickens, in fact, have the double hazard of trich and salmonela. And crow should definitely be well cooked before eating.

Scavangers all.

John