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Swede Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-25-05 02:39 PM
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Vegetable eaters:What will you do now that dozens of deadly pathogens are
found on vegetables.
Here are the leaders.

1. E. coli O157:H7

2. Campylobacter jejuni

3. Salmonella

4. Staphylococcus aureus

5. Listeria monocytogenes

6. Clostridium perfringens

7. Vibrio parahaemolyticus

8. Vibrio vulnificus

9. Hepatitis A virus, and

10. Norwalk and Norwalk-like virus

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barb162 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-25-05 02:41 PM
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1. wash them well and then boil?
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pointless Donating Member (81 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-25-05 02:42 PM
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2. Wash them
peel them or cook them.
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alfredo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-25-05 02:42 PM
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3. Wash them well, cook them properly.
clean up after yourself. Hope for the best.

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depakid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-25-05 02:49 PM
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4. Not eat alfalfa sprouts, that's for sure
There's no way to keep e-coli off of them- and there's no "kill step" anywhere along the line that will protect you.

http://www.ucbcidp.org/slides/prin_epi_outbreak_ecoli.pdf

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napi21 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-25-05 02:52 PM
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5. Well, you could always grow your own.
I don't worry about all this stuff, and I don't worry about the meat industry either, but I do grow some of my own vegies...mainly because it's a whole lot cheaper than the stores and they are FRESH!
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yewberry Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-25-05 03:08 PM
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6. You're being cute.
All but the last two on this list are most commonly contracted from meat and meat products. (And they are dangerous, but mostly for immunosuppressed people.)

The last two are fecal-oral transmissions. Eeeewwww.


(And don't eat the sprouts!)
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