mrmonkfinger – Member
and pork (same thing)
pork?
can contain tapeworm… cook thoroughly.
Absolute bunkum these days (and it was round worm not tape worm!). Go to any good restaurant your pork will be served pink. Here’s some facts:
Misconceptions about pork (volume 1, chapter 3)
The “safe” temperature for cooking pork is one of the most misunderstood – and distorted – aspects of food safety. Numerous so-called authorities or experts recommend massively overcooking pork. Why pork? The usual reason given is the danger of contamination with the roundworm Trichinella spiralis.
This assertion is misleading for several reasons, as discussed below. Most importantly, improvements in pork farming and processing practices have virtually eliminated Trichinella contamination in commercially produced pork in developed countries. One study showed that only eight cases of trichinellosis (also called trichinosis) could be attributed to pork grown commercially in the United States between 1997 and 2001. During that same period, the American population consumed about 32 billion kg / 70 billion 1b of pork. That’s an awful lot of pork to generate only eight cases of trichinellosis.
8 Cases per 32 billion kg of pork? – I’ll have mine pink please. 🙂