Ractopamine in Pork
Channel: NutritionFacts.org
Date: 2012-11-28

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DESCRIPTION: BREAKING NEWS video: An analysis of yesterday's Consumer Reports finding that 1 in 5 samples of retail pork tested positive for the growth-promoting drug ractopamine. Tomorrow, I will cover their findings on Yersinia contamination. I had been collecting papers on ractopamine and Yersinia enterocolitica for my 2013 batch of videos, but no time like the present given yesterday's findings by Consumers Union that a significant proportion of the U.S. pork supply is contaminated with both! (See http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/pork0113.htm). For more on the drug use by the livestock industry, see yesterday's video Meat Mythcrushers (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/meat-mythcrushers/), as well as Drug Residues in Meat (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/drug-residues-in-meat/), U.S. Meat Supply Flying at Half Staph (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/u-s-meat-supply-flying-at-half-staph/), and MRSA in U.S. Retail Meat (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/mrsa-in-u-s-retail-meat/). Tomorrow I will cover their finding that the majority of retail pork samples harbored the foodborne bacteria Yersinia enterocolitica.

Have a question for Dr. Greger about this video? Leave it in the comment section at http://nutritionfacts.org/video/ractopamine-in-pork/ and he'll try to answer it!

Image Credit: pradtf for his all-hands-on-deck help to get this breaking news video up and out. Images thanks to Farm Sanctuary; The Humane Society of the United States; and Seth Anderson via Flickr.

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