Bureaucracy hampers an E. coli weapon - (Business Week)
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On Mar. 21 French supermarket chains Carrefour (CARR.PA) and Monoprix (CASP.PA) began alerting consumers that more than two tons of ground meat infected with E. coli bacteria had been sold in stores throughout France. One of the country’s top food preparation companies, Socopa, revealed that routine tests run on meat prepared on Mar. 10-11 had detected the bacterium, but its presence wasn’t confirmed until Mar. 21long enough for contaminated products to make it onto dinner plates.
At least 40 people were sickened. E. coli can cause not only violent intestinal trouble, but also kidney damage or even death.
If GeneSystems has its way, such a scenario won’t be allowed to happen again. The seven-year-old biotech company, based near Rennes, in France’s Brittany region, claims its technology can slash the time needed to confirm the presence of E. coli in raw beef from a matter of days to just eight hoursfast enough […]
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