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...mail contained an Associated Press article describing outbreaks of fecal bacteria at beaches in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., a popular destination for students on break...
...Philadelphia. Veneman came up with a blueprint directing federal inspectors to hunt down Listeria on the equipment, surfaces and drains of every major producer of ready-to-eat meat and poultry. (Though the USDA selectively inspected processed meat for Listeria, it had left testing of plant interiors, where the bacteria can breed, to the companies.) The National Food Processors Association (N.F.P.A.), voice of the $500 billion industry and a major Republican donor, called Veneman's plan "very onerous" and predicted that universal government testing of plants would result in undue recalls and delay meat shipments while test results were pending...
...intellect reveals that we have only twice as many genes as a roundworm, about three times as many as a fruit fly, only six times as many as bakers' yeast. Some of those genes trace back to a time when we were fish; more than 200 come directly from bacteria. Our DNA provides a history book of where we come from and how we evolved. It is a family Bible that connects us all; every human being on the planet is 99.9% the same...
...study viruses, the simplest form of life on the planet and thus the one in which the code might be especially easy to find. By then, scientists had strong evidence that Schrodinger's genetic code was carried by DNA, thanks to a series of brilliant experiments on pneumococcal bacteria, first by Fred Griffith of the British Health Ministry and later by Oswald Avery at the Rockefeller Institute (now Rockefeller University) in New York City...
...Food and Drug Administration approves the first genetically engineered drug, a form of insulin produced by bacteria...