In the Zhytomyr region that will help to protect yourself from botulism. INFOGRAPHICS
According to Cerebroprotective, in the regions of Ukraine, incidents of botulism. Botulism is a very dangerous food poisoning arising from the use of products containing toxic substances (toxins), bacteria that produce botulism. This toxin is one of the strongest of all known toxins found in nature. The disease develops when the consumption of contaminated food of vegetable and animal origin, which were kept in conditions of deficiency of oxygen without the necessary (sufficient) heat treatment. The most dangerous are canned food and products intended for long-term storage (mushrooms, pickles, sausages, smoked and pickled foods) and cooked in the home in which it is impossible to adhere to the temperature necessary for destruction of spores of the causative agent of this disease. On their own to distinguish your products from the benign it can only be bloating the cans associated with the accumulation of gaseous metabolic products of chopsticks botulism. The taste, smell and appearance of the product do not change. To prevent botulism should: - adhere to the technology of home canning of vegetables, fruits, mushrooms, meat and meet the requirements of the General rules of hygiene when cooking; - before the use of canned foods, it is necessary to heat the open jars at 100°C for half an hour (in boiling water) – this will lead to the destruction of botulinum toxin. It must be remembered that any hermetically sealed tins potentially hazardous and can cause disease (especially mushrooms, as they are very difficult to completely clean residue from soil that contains the pathogen); - to store products that cannot be heat treated, but also is a favorable environment for toxin accumulation (salted and smoked fish, sausage) at temperatures above 8-10°C; This was reported in the Zhytomyr regional state administrationÏåðåâåäåíî ñåðâèñîì "ßíäåêñ.Ïåðåâîä÷èê": translate.yandex.ru.
Source: http://uzinform.com.ua/
