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Salmonella Contamination and the survivalist

By Joseph Parish

Usually we open the newspaper or surf the internet and several times per year we end up seeing where one product or another has been contaminated with Salmonella bacteria. With this danger continually lurking how can a survivalist beat the odds and keep his family safe and secure?

A recent outbreak of Salmonella has occurred in Peanut butter products. The Federal health authorities have informed consumers that they should avoid eating any sort of cookies, ice cream, cakes or any other foods that contain the target ingredient.

As a survivalist we have already taken this problem and resolved it. When we accumulate our emergency food supplies we purchase multiple products at the same time. In addition we normally have no immediate use of these products and they sit in our food room awaiting a need for them. In the meantime if a food related warning goes out we merely have to check the batches that we have in our storage to see if any are affected.

Generally the containers of the products that are stored appear to be safe or we would have already had notification through the media of such actions. The same situation has occurred with the peanut butter. Since my stock of peanut butter has been in storage for at least 6 months I feel it is totally safe for my family’s consumption. As of now, I can see no indication that these jars of major name brand peanut butter are in any way linked to the current recall.

More than 470 people have already got sick from these products in at least 43 states. Out of thee at least 90 has had to be hospitalized. There are currently six deaths that have been blamed on this peanut butter outbreak.

As we all know Salmonella is a bacteria and it is the source of most food poisoning found in the United States. Its major symptom is diarrhea, fever and cramping.

Although our government is on the ball when it comes to notification I feel that we as survivalists have a leading edge on this problem due principally to the fact that we do not need to immediately use our food supplies. I guess we can now chalk one up for the survivalists and the art of food storage.