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Food-borne Illness

Group finds new food poisoning culprits

Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, November 26th, 2002

Bad tomatoes' Nasty butter' Disgusting chili' Experts who convened for a recent infectious disease conference have added some unusual suspects to the long list of foods that can make people sick.

In the U.S., the food supply is getting safer. Outbreaks of food poisoning have been declining since the mid-1990s, and often those that do occur are traced to such predictable sources as undercooked meat or raw chicken.

But presentations at the Chicago meeting of the Infectious Diseases Society of America are a reminder that even the most innocuous sounding grocery items can be dangerous when something goes wrong, usually in the way they are processed...

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