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New Sensor To Detect Food-Borne Bacteria On Site
Zothecula (1870348) writes According to the CDC, around 48 million people in the US get sick, 128,000 are hospitalized, and 3,000 die as a result of foodborne illnesses every year. One of the main culprits is listeriosis (or listeria), which is responsible for approximately 1,600 illnesses and 260 deaths. Now researchers at the University of Southampton are using a device designed to detect the most common cause of listeriosis directly on food preparation surfaces, without the need to send samples away for laboratory testing.
If Listeria is responsible for 1,600 out of 128,000 (1.25%) of foodborne illnesses and 260 out of 3,000 (8.7%) of the deaths, I would not call it one of the [b]main[/b] culprits.
I'm also uncertain which CDC TFH has its numbers from. Checking with the CDC web site, I find:
During January 1, 2009 through December 31, 2010, public health departments reported 1,527 foodborne disease outbreaks, resulting in 29,444 cases of illness, 1,184 hospitalizations, and 23 deaths.
That's quite different figures from what the header here says.
No, one of the main problems (especially for things like listeria) is poor cleaning standards for commercial food processing stuff.
Yes, there certainly are good bacteria which promote health ... but in some of these cases with listeria, the company hasn't been properly cleaning the insides of commercial machines.
Similarly, things show up in all sorts of places where they shouldn't because of agricultural practices or food companies ... if your lettuce is getting salmonella or e coli on it, it's not because it started out there, but got cross contaminated either in the field, in transit, or in the processing plants.
On an industrial scale, modern food processing is pretty gross.
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And listeria is not one of these germs. Seriously, did we even read the summary? WTF
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