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...Everything proceeded according to plan until Central Kitchens began surreptitiously dumping their entire stock of tainted tea at various places around the campus during the March rains. One of those places was the Yard, where the poisoned nuts lay buried. The noxious bacteria in the tea found the toxic substance in the acorns a perfect nutriment. The odoriferous gas you have inquired about is a little-known by-product of their metabolism, encountered only when the bacterial colonies are able to grow without restraint. I'll wager there won't be much green in the Yard for Commencement Exercises this...
Action is definitely being taken to dicover the cause of the abnormally high bacteria count in the University's tea, a spokesman for the University Health Services said yesterday...
...served in the University dining halls has been found to have a bacteria content comparable to "a one to ten dilution of the Charles River," according to a report on sanitation issued in January by sanitary inspector Wilfred B. Krabek...
Krabek reported that the count of coliforms, which constitute a group of bacteria used as an indicator for pollution by human excreta, have been as high as 2400 per 100 milliliters of tea, "iced or otherwise." In comparison, the coliform count of the Charles River is of the order of 20,000/100 mls., while the maximum coliform count of drinking water allowed by Public Health Service standards is one/100...
...trouble with all these treatments, says Food Biologist Karakian ("Kutty") Bedrosian, is that they fail to take account of the fact that the produce itself wants to die. "The problem today is not bacteria, but to control or inhibit the enzyme activity by which fresh food ripens and then becomes rotten." Satisfied that modern techniques of refrigeration and decontamination are more than equal to handling harmful bacteria, Kutty went to work to cure fresh food's tendency toward self-destruction...