Word: coli
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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...
...coli--the bacteria responsible for "hamburger disease"--produces a poison that damages the lining of the intestine. Common symptoms include dehydration, fever and stomach cramps, but severe complications can lead to death...
...this Georgia town, food scientist Michael Doyle looked inside a cow's stomach for a way to kill E. coli 0157:H7, the mutant microbe blamed in the recall of 25 million pounds of ground beef over the summer...
Doyle found that several types of bacteria inside the cow make their own repellent against E. coli 0157. So he took those bacteria from cattle droppings and tissue, grew them in the lab and fed them to calves in their milk...
...bacteria not only wiped out E. coli 0157 in one group of calves within three weeks, they also kept it from invading a second group, said Doyle, who runs the University of Georgia Center for Food Safety and Quality Enhancement...