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1. www.targethealth.com
www.targethealth.com/ONTARGET/ - [Cached]Published on: 3/28/1998 Last Visited: 12/12/2007
Dr. Donald Corrier, a veterinary pathologist for the Department of Agriculture and the project leader for Preempt, cautions that even though the product can reduce contamination "to produce a cleaner chicken there is a need for an integrated program that carries all the way through the process from farm to store. -
2. www.targethealth.com
www.targethealth.com/ontarget/ - [Cached]Published on: 3/28/1998 Last Visited: 3/12/2007
Dr. Donald Corrier, a veterinary pathologist for the Department of Agriculture and the project leader for Preempt, cautions that even though the product can reduce contamination "to produce a cleaner chicken there is a need for an integrated program that carries all the way through the process from farm to store. -
3. Science News Online (3/28/98): Spray Guards Chicks from Infections by J. Raloff
www.sciencenews.org/sn_arc98/3 - [Cached]Published on: 3/28/1998 Last Visited: 2/9/2002
The bacteria cover niches in the cecal surface so quickly and heavily that intestinal pathogens find it all but impossible to move in, explains Donald Corrier, a veterinary pathologist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture in College Station, Texas, and a developer of the drug.
Because the ceca are where Salmonella reside, Corrier notes, "if you can keep them out of there, they're out of the bird." Indeed, his tests indicate that a single treatment can confer lifelong protection on 99 percent of chickens.
"The unique thing about our culture [of bacteria]," Corrier told Science News -- and the key to its approval -- "is that we know exactly what bugs are in it." While the precise function of each member is not known, he says, the microbial combo provides "an ecosystem that is very similar, on a small scale, to what's in an adult chicken."
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Corrier agrees that since even treated birds may become contaminated during food processing or in the kitchen, cooks must continue to practice good hygiene when working with eggs or raw chicken.
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Poultry doesn't provide the only market for bacterial treatments, Corrier observes. His group is trying out a swine-tailored mix on newborn pigs, and a third assortment is under development for calves.
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Corrier, D.E., et al. 1995.
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Donald Corrier United States Department of Agriculture
