[Sca-cooks] OT: no salami imports down under?

[Terry Decker]

If the meat isn't thoroughly cooked or smoked, it is possible to transmit 
viruses, some bacteria and some parasites in cured meat.  The salami in this 
case is probably salt cured and uncooked.  Hoof and mouth disease is a 
virus.  The odds are that you won't find anything serious in the salami, but 
it is possible.

Bear


> http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,11767965%5E1702,00.html
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>>From what this is telling me, it is possible to transmit animal diseases
> through finished cured food products?
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> Anyone know if that is possible?
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> Cadoc