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3A. Food Safety

How Safe Is Our Food?

A week before Christmas, 1992, Lauren Beth Rudolph ate a cheeseburger from a fast food restaurant in California. On Christmas Eve, suffering from severe stomach pain, Lauren was admitted to the hospital. There she endured three heart attacks before eventually dying on December 28. She was six years old.
The burger Lauren ate was contaminated with the virulent bacteria E. coli 0157:H7. Her death was the first in an outbreak that caused 732 illnesses in five states and killed four children. The E. coli bacteria are so virulent that it takes no more than a few of them to cause deadly infection. "We used to think of foodborne illness as little more than a stomachache," says Joseph Levitt of the U.S. government`s Food and Drug Administration. "After the [Rudolph case] we realized this was
no issue of stomachaches, but a serious and compelling public health problem."

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