reading too much smh

[mayoraasei]

Crimes against sushi

I suspect nationalism might be at work here, but hey. I'm not even a big fan of sushi (thanks to overdosing on crap ones in high school).


I love how the guy in this article totally dumbed down the disease process by being so vague that it's almost correct XDDD

Haha.....confirm the presence of botulism XDDD

Although proving that the botulism was from the nachos would be pretty hard, considering that the food poisoning is from toxins and not the bacteria, which means you can't actually test the bacteria (because there won't actually be any in the patient) to check that it's the same strain. The bacteria is also a common enough environmental (more like faecal, but anyhoo) microbe...

On the other hand, botulism is one of those diseases that are a headache for the canned food industry. The bacteria thrives in anaerobic conditions, and also produces highly resistant spores......so even if you've gotten rid of all the live bacteria by "sterialising" it, the spores can still divide into live bacteria after you've canned the meat. Which leads to the whole "you must sterialise meat broth by boiling it enough times so that the number of viable spores approaches zero".......all very mathematical, you see ==;;;;;;

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[jezjezjezza.livejournal.com]

the whole "you must sterialise meat broth by boiling it enough times so that the number of viable spores approaches zero".......all very mathematical, you see ==;;;;;;

..o_o

[luna-rainbow.livejournal.com]

Yes, because depending on the time and temperature and pressure at which you cook it (and also depending on its contents), it takes an exponential decline. It also depends on the time you leave it for between heating it, because the bacteria can multiply and produce spores. As long as you have one viable spore you can have millions of bacteria by the time the product gets on the shelves x__x

[jezjezjezza.livejournal.com]

^_^ eep!

[siu.livejournal.com]

Hehe, this reminds me about the bacteria question of the ear or somesort

[siu.livejournal.com]

=D I like your avatar~~ :3 Did you draw it yourself? =D

[jezjezjezza.livejournal.com]

thanks :D but no, I got it from some webpage, and still can't remember the address T_T I think it was some neopets petpage *blush*