why can’t people who have food that is being recalled due to bacteria contamination just cook the food to kill the bacteria
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Cooking food will kill the bacteria, but the living bacteria often are not really the problem. Instead the issue is that the bacteria produce toxins as a byproduct of their metabolism (poison poop) and those toxins are still toxins even after cooking. In order to make them stop being toxins you would need to cook the food at a high enough temperature and long enough to change them chemically into something else, which would also change the food itself chemically. In other words you would have charcoal instead of food.
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