[Ellie May]

Originally Posted by yorkiepuppie

ok, you always answer my questions, so i really want to answer a few questions for you! (but you always know more than i do! so it's hard to do!) lol.

i just looked at my food safety notes from class, and it says:

parasitic infections:
a) worms form cysts.
b) if you eat the adult, the worm is killed
c) if you eat the cyst, calcium salts around the cyst are dissolved in the stomach,
d) worm ho into stomach, intestine.
e)travel through lymph system to muscle tissue
f) .....
ok, i am just going to skip to the part that answers your Q. lol

worms can then go into dormant stage (cyst forms)
can be destroyed at 140F for 10 minutes, or 4% salt solution for 14 days, or by freezing at -20F, sterilized meat in 6 days.

So then do raw feeders universally know that the cysts are destroyed at -20F? Normal freezers are about 0F (looked it up). I don't think most people know this. Never seen exact temps mentioned when freezing raw. It looks like toxo is killed in a household freezer after 24 hours. I wonder if freezing does anything for bacteria and what about freeze drying. Hmm. I'm surprised that there aren't more charts about this kind of thing. I still think there are major issues with giving bone and balancing the way it is done for raw diet, but it seems that it would be much safter if everything could be "frozen out." lol