Rambling on and on and on about farming, food and astronomy. Astronomy? Yep. Farming and astronomy go together like garlic and basil, tomatoes and peppers, ice cream and bacon.

12th January 2012

Link reblogged from AgriThoughts with 169 notes

AgriThoughts: Shock Treatment for E Coli →

This could be a very important discovery, and additional study is important. Unfortunately, it only seems to ‘deactivate’ e.coli that is on the surface of the meat, so it is likely it probably wouldn’t work on ground forms of meat like hamburger. But it has a lot of potential. It’s cheap, probably easy to implement on a large scale, and won’t scare consumers the way irradiation does.

agrithoughts:

“A short burst of low voltage alternating current can effectively eradicate E. coli bacteria growing on the surface of even heavily contaminated beef, according to a study published in the International Journal of Food Safety, Nutrition & Public Health. The technique offers an inexpensive and…

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    very important discovery,...additional study is important. Unfortunately, it only...
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