Yes sir, it is called Burgertoxicosis, I have read
this in an American text book of Medicine when I was a
medical student in the ?..tees.
Mohammad
--- Bob Flanagan <[log in to unmask]>
wrote: > 'I can not comment on the new British rules
> concerning offal, but I do
> recall an "outbreak" of hyperthyroid symptoms that
> occurred in a town in
> North America when someone in a local abattoir
> included thyroid tissue
> in hamburger a few years ago. I gather that
> thyroid tissue is usually
> discarded. Andrew
>
> Dr. A. Lyon
> Univ. Calgary'
>
> There was an out break of 'chronic mincemeat
> poisoning' in the Netherlands
> in the 1980s - some 400 out of 950 in-patients in a
> mental hospital were
> thought to be affected (see FA de Wolff, Human
> Toxicology 1988;7:443-7). A
> sample of the mince was found to contain some 3 %
> w/w thyroid gland.
>
> Bob Flanagan
=====
Dr. M A Al-Jubouri
Consultant Chemical Pathologist
Whiston Hospital
Prescot
Merseyside L35 5DR
UK
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