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Looks more like fat surfacing to me![]()
I agree... this is silly. If pigs had worms living in their muscle tissue, they would have a lot of problems
Pork can have worms.I agree... this is silly. If pigs had worms living in their muscle tissue, they would have a lot of problems
Freezing kills T. spiralis larvae in pork. Pork <6 inches thick can be made safe if frozen to -20ºF (-29ºC) for 6 days, -10ºF (-23ºC) for 10 days, or 5ºF (-17ºC) for 20 days (18). However, freezing might not kill other species and types of Trichinella found in wild game. Infective Trichinella spp. larvae have been found in frozen bear meat: grizzly bear meat frozen at -4º--20.3ºF (-20º-- -6.5ºC) for 27 months (19) and polar bear meat frozen at -0.4ºF (-18ºC) for approximately 24 months (20,21)
USDA recommends that consumers of fresh pork cook the meat to an internal temperature of 160ºF (71ºC) (16). T. spiralis larvae in pork are killed at lower temperatures (e.g., 140ºF [60ºC] for 2 minutes or 131ºF [55ºC]) for 6 minutes (17); however, USDA has recommended a higher temperature to allow for different cooking methods that might result in uneven temperature distributions throughout the meat (e.g., microwave cooking) (13). Escherichia coli, Salmonella, Staphylococcus aureus, and Listeria monocytogenes, other foodborne microorganisms that also can be found in pork, are destroyed by thorough cooking to an internal temperature of 160ºF (71ºC) (16).
But the incidence is extremely low (and pork was only implicated in 22 of 57 known sources)
Just about anything CAN have worms. It doesn't mean it does.
Yeah, considering that ungodly creature in your avatar probably has them.
Yeah, considering that ungodly creature in your avatar probably has them.
Yeah, considering that ungodly creature in your avatar probably has them.
What's the matter BigDyl, no "I have a worm for you"?
My dogs have NEVER had worms. I thought they might have gotten them once when they caught, killed and ate the neighbors cat but they didn't end up catching anything.
I had the same thought, but I realized that it was flawed.
Just because only a handful of people get sick, doesn't mean that a small percentage of pork has worms in it. The risk of getting infested with worms from eating pork has to do with not properly cooking the meat; which kills the worms.
So who knows, maybe a lot of pork meat has live worms in it before you cook it?![]()
But I still like my steak rare->medium rare. I'm willing to play Russian roulette.
Nice post LW.