SPROUTNET: Garbage in garbage out - (International Specialty Supply)
October 30, 2007 – 11:05 pmThe October issue of the Journal of Food Protection contains an article by Marilyn Erickson and Michael Doyle, from the Center for Food Safety and Department of Food Science and Technology at the University of Georgia. The abstract includes the following: Recent analysis of retail foods in the United States revealed E. coli O157:H7 was present in 1.5% of alfalfa sprouts and 0.17% of ground beef but not in some other foods examined.
The folks at the Center for Food Safety should have known better, and the Journal of Food Protection needs to review their review process. Before talking about how the authors got the information, and how JFP came to publish it, lets look at the information itself.
If 1.5% of all alfalfa sprouts are contaminated with E.coli O157:H7 that would be one contaminated package in each 51/2 cases that go out of a sprout growers door. Interesting, considering that sprouts […]
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