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5 hrs ago | WKBT

Beef Risk 5/10/13

A sizzling steak on the grill looks tempting - but it may have been run through a machine like this to make it tender.

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Related Topix: Life, Beef, Food, Meat, Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Mon May 20, 2013

KHOU-TV Houston

4 Germs Cause Most of Infants' Severe Diarrhea

Just four germs are responsible for most of the severe and fatal diarrhea among the world's infants, according to a large new study.

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Related Topix: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Charitable Organizations, Health, Cholera

WTAJ

High Fiber/Food Poisoning LInk

Health experts say eating a high fiber diet can reduce your risk of heart attack, stroke and diabetes.

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Related Topix: Food Poisoning, Health

EurekAlert!

Intestinal bacteria protect against E. coli O157:H7

A cocktail of non-pathogenic bacteria naturally occurring in the digestive tract of healthy humans can protect against a potentially lethal E. coli infection in animal models according to research presented today at the 113th General Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology.

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Related Topix: Health, Drink, Cocktails, Microbiology, Biology, Science, Food Science

Patch.com

E.Coli Health Risk Rises on Chattahoochee River

The storms that rolled through Peachtree Corners and the metro area early Sunday morning brought heavy rains and the danger of flooding along the Chattachoochee River.

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Related Topix: Weather, Natural Disasters, Flood, Health, Georgia, Georgia Government

Sun May 19, 2013

BioResearch Online

Introduction To Escherichia Coli In A Stirred-Tank Bioreactor

E. coli is a Gram-negative, non-spore-forming facultative anaerobe that has had a long history in the world of biotechnology and laboratory work due to its ease of manipulation and well-understood genetic system.

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Related Topix: Health, Genetics, Medicine

Sat May 18, 2013

The Miami Herald

Bacteria's crawling all over; adopt a clean routine

Given how often they're on the floor, occasionally inside a public restroom, it should come as no surprise that a third of women's purses crawl with E. coli.

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Related Topix: Health, Food Science, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Patch.com

Official: Cobb Swimming Pools Safe

Despite a study from the Centers for Disease Control that found fecal bacteria in more than half of the water samples taken from metro Atlanta public swimming pools , Cobb officials said the county's pools are safe.

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Related Topix: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Health

Fri May 17, 2013

Lifestyles

Label rules tightened on tenderized meats

Starting July 2, federally inspected meat plants in Canada will be required to label beef steaks or roasts that have been mechanically tenderized, the federal government announced Friday.

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Related Topix: North America, Canada, World News, Health, Stephen Harper, Food Science

CBS Local

CDC: 3 Of 5 Pools Tested Positive For Fecal Contamination

According to the CDC, the figures from their tests of polls conducted during last summer's swim season showed about 58 percent of the samples tested positive for E. coli and bacteria typically found in human feces.

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Related Topix: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Health

CBC News

Ritz making food safety announcement in Saskatoon

Federal Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz says new rules to improve food safety will go into effect over the next two months.

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Related Topix: Food Science, Canada, Health

Common Dreams

Superbugs: Those Uninvited Guests at Your Barbecue

An alarming amount of American meat harbors not just pathogens, but "superbugs" - antibiotic-resistant bacteria.

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Related Topix: Life, Food, Bar-B-Q, Agriculture, Science, Food Science, Health, Food Poisoning, US News, Liberal Political News

Infection Control Today

Patient Characteristics Discriminate Between Asymptomatic and Symptomatic E. coli Bacteriuria

Escherichia coli is a common cause of asymptomatic and symptomatic bacteriuria in hospitalized patients.

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Related Topix: Health, Heart Failure

WIVB

Rich Products plant remains closed

The future of the Rich Products facility in Georgia appears to be in jeopardy after a widespread E. coli outbreak.

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Related Topix: Health, Waycross, GA

Thu May 16, 2013

GastroHep.com

PCR assay for rapid detection of pathogens directly from stools of travelers with diarrhea

The latest issue of Clinical Gastroenterology & Hepatology investigates a quantitative PCR assay for rapid detection of pathogens directly from stools of travelers with diarrhea.

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Related Topix: Health, Cholera

Dissident Voice

Rethinking Industrial Agriculture

According to Michael Ableman, author of Fields of Plenty , 25% of Americans make the conscious choice to eat organic food.

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Related Topix: Agriculture, Science, Epidemic, Natural Disasters, US News, Liberal Political News

Wed May 15, 2013

Kypost.Com

Machine-tenderized beef could pose risk

Before you fire up the grill for some great summer meals, Consumer Reports has a caution: The beef you buy may have been tenderized by machines, and that process can introduce potentially deadly bacteria into your food.

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Related Topix: Meat, Life, Beef, Food, Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

New Scientist

Synthetic spider venom makes a kinder, safer antidote

TINY but deadly. Of the 7000 people bitten every year in Brazil by brown recluse spiders , also known as reapers, 1.5 per cent die.

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Related Topix: Health, Science / Technology

Science Fiction in the News

Bacteria Now Make Biofuel Like Oil

A UK researcher has altered E. coli bacteria, forcing them to produce hydrocarbons that are chemically the same as commercial grade fuel.

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Related Topix: Health, Biofuel, Alternative Energy, Renewable Energy (Green Energy), Energy, Agriculture, Science

Nashoba Publishing Online

Ayer duo took plunge into water-testing business

The last thing Dave Knowlton expected to become was an entrepreneur. Founder and co-owner of Nashoba Analytical LLC, Knowlton is a scientist with an extensive background in microbiology and chemistry.

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Related Topix: Ayer, MA, Microbiology, Chemistry, Biology, Science, Littleton, MA, Health