Management Secrecy - A Threat to Health and Safety

Members will be aware that a trial of the use of gas flush meat is being carried out in Coles Myer stores. It is clear that Coles Myer are increasing the numbers of stores that are being supplied from a centralised company who are providing the gas flushed meat.

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Pigs Brains Workers at two pork processing plants in USA have developed a mysterious nerve illness following the use of compressed air to blast brain tissue from the heads. The process generates an aerosol of brain matter that can be inhaled by the workers. According to USA health authorities, since 2006, 12 workers at the Minnesota abattoir have developed symptoms ranging from weakness, tingling and numbness through to acute paralysis. Other workers at an abattoir in Indiana have developed similar symptoms. Neurologist, Daniel Lachance at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester says: "In some, the weakness has improved, but no one is completely better". All of the infected workers have a similar pattern of inflammation in their spinal and peripheral nerves, which Lachance suspects is the result of auto-immune damage triggered by immune symptoms to the pigs brains. As a result of the investigation, the blasting process has been stopped at the three plants who use this process in the USA