When there are reports of contaminated food, why is it always with E. Coli? Why aren’t other organisms more common, and/or why is E.Coli so good at growing on our food?
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*E. Coli * can potentially be fatal. That’s why. There are salmonella outbreaks too but that’s s lot less fatal so there’s not as much of a freak out. *E. Coli* is a common bacteria in the intestines of mammals. It’s in pretty much all the cows from which your beef comes. The contamination occurs when fecal matter from
those cows gets onto the beef you’re going to eat. Slaughterhouses are messy so it happens. But they wash and treat the meat to kill all of the bacteria. Sometimes they miss some.
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