Word: bacterias
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...poultry- inspection rules that would create a "zero tolerance" standard for the presence of fecal matter, which carries the organisms that make people sick. When Espy finally released an 86-page, zero-tolerance plan last July, it didn't contain a solution to the problem of dangerous bacteria. "The plan is a farce," says Edward Menning, director of the National Association of Federal Veterinarians, many of whose members work in poultry plants. "It's some spin doctor's effort to fool people...
...years ago when it was first put in place." And yet, says Representative Edolphus Towns, who chairs the House Human Resources subcommittee, the USDA blithely continues "to stamp every piece of inspected poultry with a seal of approval even if the product is crawling with deadly bacteria...
...Genetically engineered foods contain genetic material from dissimilar plants, animals, viruses and bacteria, or contain synthetically produced genetic material to confer certain characteristics desirable to the food producers," the letter said...
...common belief that hair dye caused cancer was based on a finding in 1975 by Dr. Bruce G. Ames, director of environmental health at the University of California at Berkeley. Ames observed that hair dye caused mutations in bacteria...
Researchers suggest instead that we look to the sea for epidemics. The city of Boston pours tons of pollution and sewage into the water, causing change to the ecosystems. Already algae bloom points to a very unbalanced environment. Perhaps some vicious bacteria is breeding in the sewage, waiting to spread infection by a carrier as apparently innocent as a flea...