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...uses only USDA Choice meats, cooked medium well to 165 degrees Fahrenheit to prevent dangerous bacteria such as E. coli. The FDA recommends that ground beef reach an internal temperature of 155 degrees Fahrenheit...
...year-old Martian rock found in the Antarctic wastes last year over which everyone from NASA to the White House went ga-ga. Until now, prevailing scientific opinion said the worm-like forms on the potato-sized meteor meant there may have once been life on Mars ? little green bacteria, if not little green...
...Iraqis proved how simple it was, beginning in 1989 with the production of anthrax--bacteria that cause deadly hemorrhaging in the brain and chest--at the Al Hakam Single Cell Protein Production Plant. In the mid-1980s, before the U.S. belatedly banned such dangerous exports, Iraq's Education Ministry ordered 70 packages of microbes and toxins from the American Type Culture Collection, a nonprofit outfit in Rockville, Md. Included were flasks of freeze-dried anthrax spores. Iraqi labs reconstituted the spores in soy broth and put them into a small fermenter filled with a growth medium. The medium, Zilinskas says...
...similar process produced the even deadlier toxin of botulinum bacteria, but because oxygen kills these germs, they were grown in a fermenter infused with nitrogen. Botulism is a severe kind of food poisoning that causes paralysis and death. The Iraqis also used the castor-bean plant, widely grown in the country, to produce the poison ricin, which kills by altering the body's use of proteins and causing circulatory collapse and heart failure...
What mildly alarms me is how prevalent and widely accepted this practice is. Which makes me find my mother's otherwise anal policies on hygiene kind of ironic. We will regularly trade off oral bacteria seething from the remains of our daily diet but she insists that I change my clothes and remove my shoes immediately upon entering the house...