Inside the Cyclospora & Salmonella Threats

mean, the biggest threat with any foodborne illness, food poisoning, it's vomiting and diarrhea.

That's how the body rids itself of these bacteria or pathogens, parasites, etc., And dehydration.

Yeah.

So old people and babies.

Yeah.

You don't want them to get you

and I are OK.

We can be dehydrated for a couple of days, but, you know, we'll recover.

So first, what is foodborne illness? The plain definition, a foodborne illness is what happens when you eat a pathogen like a foreign bacteria or a toxin, it is released, and it makes you sick.

The CDC estimates roughly 48 million Americans get it every year.

About 128,000 land in the hospital and around 3,000 actually die.

Salmonella is a bacteria.

This is the number one pathogen that we worry about in the spice industry.

The FDA found salmonella in about 6.6% of imported spice shipments.

That's roughly twice the rate of all other imported FDA regulated foods.

And that spread across 37 of the 79 countries examined.

Did you know that the spice industry is one of the dirtiest industries there is?

Why and what does that mean? Yeah, it's not a great look for us.

But,

you know, these spices are grown around the world and the way that they're handled in other countries, it's it's all it's all handling.

Right.

So I'll be honest.

I mean, sometimes I see pictures of you know, these international farms, growers, collectives, and people are not wearing gloves.

Sometimes people aren't wearing shoes.

So it's all these things that are standard in the United States, but the rest of the world, not so

mean, the biggest threat with any foodborne illness, food poisoning, it's vomiting and diarrhea.

That's how the body rids itself of these bacteria or pathogens, parasites, etc., And dehydration.

Yeah.

So old people and babies.

Yeah.

You don't want them to get you

and I are OK.

We can be dehydrated for a couple of days, but, you know, we'll recover.

So first, what is foodborne illness? The plain definition, a foodborne illness is what happens when you eat a pathogen like a foreign bacteria or a toxin, it is released, and it makes you sick.

The CDC estimates roughly 48 million Americans get it every year.

About 128,000 land in the hospital and around 3,000 actually die.

Salmonella is a bacteria.

This is the number one pathogen that we worry about in the spice industry.

The FDA found salmonella in about 6.6% of imported spice shipments.

That's roughly twice the rate of all other imported FDA regulated foods.

And that spread across 37 of the 79 countries examined.

Did you know that the spice industry is one of the dirtiest industries there is?

Why and what does that mean? Yeah, it's not a great look for us.

But,

you know, these spices are grown around the world and the way that they're handled in other countries, it's it's all it's all handling.

Right.

So I'll be honest.

I mean, sometimes I see pictures of you know, these international farms, growers, collectives, and people are not wearing gloves.

Sometimes people aren't wearing shoes.

So it's all these things that are standard in the United States, but the rest of the world, not so