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http://health.yahoo.com/news/167727
Does the match of the strain of E.coli found on this farm with the E.coli in the spinach represent a unique correlation between the two? In other words, are there so many different strains that a match of strains between two random samples would be unlikely?
All through this debacle, they have been telling us that E.coli is naturally found in the intestines of cattle. So why the big surprise to find it in cattle manure on a cattle farm?
Note that in the article, Dr. Kevin Reilly, deputy director of the prevention services division for the California Department of Health Services said this:
"The investigation is not concluded in any way, shape or form."
And, Robert Brackett, director of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition said this:
"It is our expectation that no farm should feel like they are off the hook."
What exactly is meant by the "HOOK" that cattle ranches would either be on or off of? Does the HOOK mean BLAME? Does this mean that if the E.coli came from a cattle ranch, the cattle ranch would be to blame for the outbreak?
How could you blame a cattle ranch for producing E.coli when all cows produce it routinely and naturally?
This strikes me as a desperate attempt to revive the spinach industry and soothe the public's fears about spinach by concocting a bogus explanation for the E.coli outbreak because the real explanation is either unknown or damaging to a political agenda.
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10-15-2006 06:27 PM
