Heat, meat and squalor: a recipe for disaster

Article Abstract:

A restaurant in south Carolina, SC, caused a serious outbreak of salmonella poisoning when it ignored health rules in catering for a convention of 2,000 hardware retailers. Over 800 people were ill. The South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control investigated and found turkey was the main source of infection. The restaurant concerned violated 23 health and hygiene rules in 1990. Refrigerators and ovens were inadequate for the 7,000 meals required. Turkey was left unrefrigerated and transported by unrefrigerated truck.

Cooking, Laws, regulations and rules, Food and nutrition, South Carolina, Salmonellosis, Turkeys, Food handling, Cookery (Turkeys), Turkey (Meat)

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Worm's turn to do the biological laundry

Article Abstract:

A bacterium isolated from the Psiloteredo healdi mollusc produces an enzyme which attacks proteinaceous stains. It was discovered during studies at the Agricultural Research Service in Peoria, Illinois. The enzyme works in more alkaline formulations which are less environmentally harmful, and should work well in cold-water detergents. It is good as a protein remover for contact lenses and remains active when hydrogen peroxide is also present. Therefore a single solution for cleansing and sterilising is possible.

Care and treatment, Proteases, Enzymes, Detergents, Synthetic, Detergents, Mollusks, Contact lenses

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Gut reaction to the cholesterol count

Article Abstract:

Research undertaken at Iowa State University indicates that a microbe could be used instead of synthetic drugs, which have side-effects, to lower the amount of cholesterol circulating in the bloodstream. Work has focused on a bacterium called Eubacterium coprostanoligenes, which has been found to convert cholesterol into coprostanol.

Bacteria, Blood cholesterol

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