Are our hamburgers still safe?
If someone told you that a hamburger could be the riskiest menu item at the next restaurant you go to, it would probably sound alarmist. Escherichia coliform (that’s E. coli for the rest of us) is staying in the media, so it’s not fairly as crazy as it appears. Turns out less than a half of one percent of beef is even tested for the bacteria.
With hundreds of varieties of E. coli, not all of them are harmful. As that editorial states, estimates propose that we excrete 10 billion E. coli bacteria every date we go to the bathroom. So what’s there to distress about? Well, beef is placed into boxes by the ton before getting processed.
That’s 2,000 pounds of pre-hamburger meat. But less than a pound of meat per ton gets analyzed for bacteria! whether the tiny amount they tested checks out A-OK,
Original post by Adams Briscoe
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