Word: schlegelmilch
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...July 3, while camping with her family in New Mexico, 12-year-old Nicole Schlegelmilch ate a bad burger. Six days later she was in an emergency room back home in Denver, cramping, dehydrated and passing blood. By July 11, as she began to recover, doctors still wondered just what...
...Colorado outbreak began in early June, when a young food-poisoning sufferer gave what he considered to be a suspicious beef patty to county health officials near his Pueblo home. By mid-August, at least 14 more cases--including Schlegelmilch's--had cropped up statewide, all traceable to patties prepared at a Columbus, Neb., meat-processing plant owned by Hudson Foods of Rogers, Ark. The contamination probably originated at one of the slaughterhouses that supplies the Nebraska plant, but U.S. Department of Agriculture investigators found extensive problems at the plant, including the practice of tossing one day's leftover...
...saga reignites old concerns aboutwhether the government, apart from issuing warnings about cooking meat properly (160[degrees] for a standard patty), does enough to ensure food safety. Nicole Schlegelmilch got sick in early July, but, her mother Ann complains, "I didn't hear from the health department until Aug. 9." And the hospital epidemiologist said Nicole's illness was the first the hospital knew of an E. coli outbreak--although it had been several weeks since that suspect patty was turned in by the first victim. Why did officials take so long to interview E. coli victims, and why didn...
Such questions led Schlegelmilch, a Denver receptionist, to join STOP (Safe Tables Our Priority), a Washington group for parents whose children have eaten tainted food. "I haven't purchased any ground beef," she says, "and I probably won't ever again...
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