Traces Of Toxin Found
In UK Eggs
From Patricia Doyle,
PhD
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
4-18-4
- From ProMED-mail
- Source: PA News Wed 14 Apr 2004
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- Limit Egg Intake Warning As Traces Of Toxin
Found
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- By Laura Scott
- The Scotsman
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- Children and people with heart conditions were today
being warned to limit the number of eggs they eat after traces of a
toxic drug were found in around one in 10 tested.
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- Organic farming group the Soil Association issued the
advice in light of new [UK] Government figures which reveal 12 percent
of eggs tested contained residues of Lasalocid.
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- The antibiotic, which is used to treat parasitic
stomach infections in livestock, gets into laying hens and consequently
eggs through batches of chicken feed which have been contaminated by
accident.
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- People with cardiac arrhythmia, children, and adults
who eat 3 or 4 eggs a day are most at risk from the drug, the
association claims.
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- It says Lasalocid has been linked to increased heart
and breathing rates, paralysis and even death in poultry. It has also
voiced concerns that there may be a link between the consumption of
contaminated eggs and Sudden Adult Death Syndrome.
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- Richard Young, policy advisor at the Soil Association,
claims current egg testing methods are not thorough enough to weed out
the majority of contaminated eggs.
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- "In this country [UK] we eat 26 million eggs a day,
and there are only about 250 sample egg tests, so the question is how
many contaminated eggs slip through the net?" he said. "If you're a
consumer that gets the bad eggs, you're not just going to get one bad
egg. The whole batch that egg came from is probably contaminated, so
you're going to get a whole bad lot at one time."
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- Consumers should be aware of the potential danger and
limit their daily egg intake, according to the association. Mr Young
said: "We advise people to be moderate in the way they eat eggs. Eat
organic if you can and certainly give organic eggs to children, and 2
eggs in one day would be the maximum you should have."
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- http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm
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