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MEAT ZAPPER Dangerous bacteria like E. coli and Salmonella could be zapped in meat and poultry, but the public has balked at irradiation in foods--even though it's government approved--because it involves powerful gamma rays emitted by radioactive isotopes. Now Titan Corp. in San Diego, Calif., has invented a meat pasteurization system that uses electron beams instead. Approved by the FDA and awaiting final regulations from the USDA, electronically pasteurized meat should be in selected test markets by year...
AMUSEMENT PARKS Killer coasters cast pall on summer. What's next? E. coli cotton candy...
DIRTY LITTLE SECRET When it comes to cooking and eating food, Americans still haven't cleaned up their act. Data on 20,000 adults show that 20% eat hamburger meat that's pink after cooking, despite the risk of E. coli infection. Half say they eat undercooked eggs with runny yolks--which may be linked to salmonella infection. And 25% of men and 14% of women do not routinely wash their hands after handling raw meat and poultry. Who's most guilty? Americans with higher incomes turn out to be among the worst offenders...
...town sits smack atop a geological formation where sulfur, natural gas and other petroleum products mingle with the groundwater. The result is a nasty mix that is unusable to residents. Many of the town's wells are also contaminated with potentially deadly E. coli pollutants. So a commodity most Americans take for granted simply does not exist in Evansville. "My five-year-old daughter doesn't know what it's like to get water out of a faucet," says resident Helen Martin. For the past five years, 200 families in this hamlet in the northwestern part of the state have...
Contaminated factory farms and dirty slaughterhouses are perfect breeding grounds for killer bacteria such as E. coli. Irradiating food is not the answer. As your piece pointed out, "More effective than cleaning food after it has been contaminated is preventing it from getting dirty in the first place." A start would be adopting stricter hygienic rules in the factory farms and then applying similar high standards to the slaughterhouses. DIANA KARLENZIG San Francisco...