All this, and at a time when the government programs that alert and protect us against things like this are being cut. I think we should all be worried. I also agree that they are playing it down, again!
Conditions in large scale factory farms need to be addressed as regards safety protocols for how to appropriately insure that these kind of concerns are managed. At the same time antibiotics should only be used in animals when they are necessary because otherwise it promotes drug resistant bacteria which don't respond to an increasing amount of common antibiotics. We were better off in general with family run farms that were a life time commitment for people. It was part of what defined our country and helped people as well.
Maybe all of the above ..in Europe it came from Veg, cucumbers , but they said that it must have originated from animals ..dead ones.
I just cant believe how much of a problem this has become.
Is it contaminated water? Is it run off? Is it turning manure in the soil at the wrong times like (not waiting for fall, or not waiting for it to be (oooh, I know the word)--anyway--when its all dried up and dust like.
Or is it the factory? (dirty equipment)
Or is it people deficating in the fields?
Or is it wild animal leavings?
These people need to be doing everything they can to insure food safety.
It sounds as if they are playing it down ...it was really nasty in Europe ..