Loren Muldowney wrote:
> > 76 million people yearly attrack e-coli and/or salmonella infection. Now, if
> > organic is 1% of the market, I understand 2,5 million of these are organic
> > consumers eating Spring Mix, but who are the other 73,5 million?
> > wytze
According to Mead et al. (Emerging Infectious diseases vol 5 #5, online at
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/eid/vol5no5/mead.htm )
an estimated 76 million people each year contract a "food-related illness." The vast
majority of these illnesses are _viruses_ (67%)! Norwalk viruses are the main
problem and are principally transmitted "through contaminated meat carcasses or poor
personal hygiene practices of infected food handler(s)" ( Jaycus, Emerging Infectious
diseases vol3 #4 online at http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/eid/vol3no4/jaykus.htm ).
Only 30% of food-borne pathogens are bacterial (and most of those Campylobacter and
Salmonella, with 1.3% being E. coli strains). The general public doesn't want to
hear that Joe Blow meat handler is making them sick. They want to blame a bug that
is an easy enemy. . . The Deadly E. coli!
I'll stop for now. . . (I could go on. I'd likely bore everyone here!) Later. .
.Russ
Russ Bulluck
Visiting Post-Doctoral Fellow
Department of Plant Pathology
1 Shields Ave
UC-Davis
Davis, CA 95616
lrbulluck@ucdavis.edu
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