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Food-Borne Illness
Fast-food beef tacos blamed for multistate E. coli outbreak
July 10th, 2004
Thirteen people from Arizona, California and Nevada who ate beef tacos from a national fast-food restaurant chain in 1999 became infected with Escherichia coli, according to a new study. Epidemiologists found that evidence pointed to the ground beef as the problem taco ingredient. A strain of E. coli, which can cause people to suffer bloody diarrhea and renal problems, occurs in the manure of some healthy cattle; any meat that comes into contact with that manure in slaughterhouses can become contaminated. In this study, published in the July 1, 2004, issue of Clinical Infectious Diseases, a slaughterhouse in Idaho was the source...
Source: Obesity, Fitness & Wellness Week (2004-07-10)
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