Eating Well - Beaming with Health
Eating Well - Beaming with Health
Eating Well - Beaming with Health
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Safe or Fake 75<br />
The usual suspects<br />
FOOD P~~sONING- THE USUAL SUSPECTS<br />
bacteria rnoufd virvser> yeasf<br />
There are four types of microorganisms in food that may<br />
cause us grief: bacteria, moulds or fungi, yeasts and<br />
viruses. The most common are bacteria.<br />
Bacteda Never great believers in birth control, bacteria<br />
breed at the drop of a hat, usually by dividing in half.<br />
Their favourite motto is 'divide and conquer'. Family gettogethers<br />
must be quite boring or harmonious, as bacteria<br />
in theory are identical brothers and sisters.<br />
Salmon& Not a female fish, but a bacteria that is<br />
responsible for the majority of food poisoning outbreaks<br />
in Australia. Safmonella causes gastro-type symptoms,<br />
including nausea and vomiting which in the weakened<br />
can result in death. Outbreaks have been recorded<br />
mainly from raw meats, poultry and dairy products, but<br />
also peanut butter, desiccated coconut, chocolate and<br />
eggs. Most outbreaks occur through cross-contarnination<br />
from raw food to cooked food.<br />
Badus cereas 'Cereus' refers not to a sober state ofmind,<br />
but being first detected in cereal foods. The major syrnptoms<br />
of infection are diarrhoea and vomiting occurring<br />
I <strong>with</strong>in 8 to 16 hours aRer eating the contaminated food.
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