Can anyone enlighten me as to how salmonella contamination starts or originates in canola meal?
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Can't say for sure but I wouldn't be suprised if the screenings, (taken out before the seed is crushed) are added back in and they may easily contain feces from deer birds etc. Much the same way our grain exports are cleaned and then contaminated up to accepted tolerances. Just my two cents.
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Cargill Canola Stopped At Border By FDA
by Dan Flynn | Nov 17, 2009
It is not too far-fetched to say that trainloads of canola oil manufactured at Cargill Limited's seed processing facility at Clavet, Saskatchewan are being turned back at the border by the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA).
October's "import refusal report" by FDA shows three Cargill canola oil shipments being turned back on Oct. 12 and then another 14 shipments via the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad being stopped on Oct. 30. It was to be used for animal feed in the U.S.
Each of the 17 October shipments was refused entry to the United States because they appeared to "contain Salmonella, a poisonous and deleterious substance which may render it injurious to health."
All the shipments were coming from the Cargill Oil Seed Processing facility in Clavet, which has the capacity to process 2,400 tons of canola oil each day. The largest soft-seed plant in North America, the Clavet facility makes canola oil and specialty oils in addition to canola meal.
Canola meal is used as a high protein feed by the livestock industry. Canola oils are used for salad oils, frying and processed food applications.
Cargill, Bunge, and Viterra canola plants were already operating under restrictions imposed by FDA before the October shipments were refused. The actions have caused the canola producers to reduce their crushing volumes.
The Salmonella bacterium is one of the most common causes of foodborne illnesses. Canada's homegrown canola industry argues meal used for livestock feed should not be held to human food standards. Salmonella was responsible for at least two large ground beef recalls this year.
Canada annually exports three to four millions tons of seed and 700,000 tons of canola oil and one million tons of canola meal. Canada and the U.S., mostly North Dakota, produce up to ten million tons of canola seed each year. Canola originally meant "Canadian oil, low acid."
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Bio-security
This is a key issue for the poultry industry where contamination with salmonella could cause
major problems and appears to be one of most limiting factors in canola meal usage. Canola
meal is apparently more susceptible to contamination than other protein meals. Moisture
content may be significant in handling this problem with reduced moisture giving less
contamination. However, there is also a relationship to processing damage of amino acids
through heat treatment at the processing plant and again during pelletising which is considered
necessary to ensure removal of salmonella.
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Overall Canada's canola meal exports during August and September were down 4.6 percent at 290,287 tonnes.
Shipping off-shore, although currently necessary, is more costly and less profitable for crushers, Hickling said.
Crushing volume has dropped 7 percent from Aug. 1 to Dec. 2, the Canadian Oilseed Processors Association reported on Friday.
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