We have been playing Russian roulette with our food supply for years by allowing these downer animals into the food chain, ... This much-needed legislation will codify a temporary administrative ban on the processing of downer cattle and it will expand the ban on the processing of other downer livestock. Animals too sick or injured to walk are a higher risk for mad cow disease, E. coli and salmonella, and they suffer terribly when they're dragged to slaughter.
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It's an insoluble product, and once in the gut, it specifically reacts with the toxins produced by E. coli -- inactivates the toxin, which is then excreted out of the body as waste.
One of the major problems is to make sure that the meat is thoroughly cooked because you can have the pathogenic E. coli bacteria,
We do get a lot of different, strange phone calls from tour operators and travel agents, wanting to know Is the drinking water safe, do you have E. coli It's alarming, because it can spread so quickly, the false information.
E. coli in general are normal flora of the gastrointestinal tracts of people and animals,