Canned salmon
Sir.—Might I ask the Health Department, through your columns, to answer this question: If it is true that the botulinus bacterium has never been found in New Zealand, would it not be safe to have any suspect tins, of salmon, that are withdrawn from sale, incinerated under very high temperatures in crematoriums rather than merely crushed and buried in rubbish dumps, from which leaching sometimes contaminates underground water? I understand that the botulinus bug is a very long-lived and resistant one, which we do not want here.— Yours, etc.,
A. E. KINGSTON May 21, 1982.
Canned salmon — Kingston (The Deputy Medical Officer of Health replies: "It is not true that the botulinus bacterium has never been found in New Zealand. Clostridium botulinum has been identified in ducks in New Zealand. The disease of botulism has however, not been recorded in New Zealand."]
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