Authors: Zhang, Guodong1; Ma, Li2; Beuchat, Larry R.2; Erickson, Marilyn C.2; Phelan, Vanessa H.2; Doyle, Michael P.2
Source: Journal of Food Protection®, Volume 72, Number 10, October 2009 , pp. 2028-2037(10)
Publisher: International Association for Food Protection
Abstract:
Survival and internalization characteristics of Escherichia coli O157:H7 in iceberg, romaine, and leaf lettuce after inoculation of
"I ask myself every day, ‘Why me?’ and ‘Why from a hamburger?’
Michael Moss does an amazing job of exposing the underbelly of how our meat is produced in the United States.
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