Russia Dumps 200 Tonnes of Anthrax Tainted Horsemeat

ANTHRAX, HUMAN, EQUINE - RUSSIA (02): (OMSK) DUMPLINGS DUMPED


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Date: 14 Sep 2010

Source: Itar-Tass [edited]

http://www.itar-tass.com/eng/level2.html?NewsID=15489745&PageNum=0



Some 200 tons of convenience foods to be disposed over anthrax threat

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About 200 tons of convenience foods that might contain anthrax

bacillus will be disposed of in Russia's cities of Omsk,

Khanty-Mansiisk, Tver, Surgut, and others.



Chief sanitarian doctor for Russia's Omsk region Alexander Kriga on

Monday [13 Sep 2010] ordered [the disposal] of more than 195 tons of

meat-stuffed convenience foods produced in the period from 13 Jul

through 6 Aug 2010 by the Darina company and 2 more private

enterprises. The companies used horse meat bought from the Aitenov

farm, where anthrax cases were reported among horses. Moreover, 6

farm workers were reported to catch the disease, and one of them died.



According to Kriga, subject to disposal will also [cover] prepared

foods made from meats other than horse meat but manufactured within

the same time span and with the use of the same equipment.

"Practically all our resolutions are challenged at courts but the

claimants lose every one of them," he noted.



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[Back in late July/early August 2010 some 127 people were under

observation and preventive prophylaxis, and 6 were hospitalized with

one death. Then the Russian press mentioned some 2.5 metric tons of

horse meat had been identified as possibly contaminated. Products

manufactured between 13 Jul and 28 Jul 2010 were then identified for

destruction. Plus 14.3 tons had been shipped to Nizhnevartovsk

[Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Region], about 11 tons to Tver and

Khanty-Mansiysk, and 500 pounds to Moscow. Patently the problem is

much larger than originally considered. - Mod.MHJ]



[The interactive HealthMap/ProMED map for Russia is available at:

- CopyEd.EJP]



[see also:

Anthrax, human, equine - Russia: (OM) dumplings 20100805.2644

2009

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Anthrax, human, equine - Russia: (Bashkortostan) 20090113.0141

2008

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Anthrax, human, equine - Russia (03): (Bashkortostan) 20081123.3699

Anthrax, human, equine - Russia (02): (Bashkortostan) 20080907.2789

Anthrax, human, equine - Russia: (RB) 20080830.2720]

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