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a time. You may be asking “Why would you kill poor little flies?” well guess what you dingus they are horrible creatures! Think about it the little devils are not only super annoying, they're also very dangerous spreading diseases such as “...salmonella, anthrax, and tuberculosis.”- https://www.orkin.com/flies/house-fly/house-fly-and-disease/. Now you may not understand the gravity of the situation, click this link to see just how horrible some of these diseases are:…

The reason drinking saltwater is bad for you is because “it causes dehydration.” says Livescience in their article Why Can’t We Drink Salt Water? Anyways that is 1 of many reasons why it is bad for you. “Another reason is that consuming too little or too much salt wreaks havoc in our bodies.” says Howstuffworks in their article What if you drink saltwater? Other reasons digesting salt water range from the shrinkage of cells to the shrinkage of your blood veins, both can cause fatal illnesses…

painted on his walls. King Tut has a cut on his cheek by almost getting assassinated.But he was in a fight and was put into a coma for a day or 2.Then he ate a giant meal but some of it wasn’t fully cooked[some kind of fish.]He didn’t realize the salmonella poisoning in his meal.Later around age 19 the poison made him pass out and he fell and got a broken leg. Ankhesenamun was King Tut’s wife she married King Tut at age 10 and 11.After Tut’s death Ankhesenamun…

Trend #1: Lateral Flow Immunoassay (LFI) Shan, S., Lai, W., Xiong, Y., Wei, H., and Xu, H. (2015) Novel Strategies To Enhance Lateral Flow Immunoassay Sensitivity for Detecting Foodborne Pathogens. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry. 63, 745−753. DOI: 10.1021/jf5046415. This article talks about the simplicity, stability and sensitivity of conventional lateral flow immunoassay (LFI) device for the use of detecting foodborne pathogens. Foodborne pathogen has prevailed to cause disease…

In the food industry, structural and corporate forces highly influence the eating habits of consumers. Though it may appear to individuals that they have a diverse selection of food at their disposal, the choices available are in reality predetermined and selected to serve in the best interests of food corporations and government agencies. Despite the power relations at play, society holds consumers responsible for their diets and any health-related effects. As a result, the discussion of…

Lessons learned from multistate outbreaks of Escherichia coli O26 linked to Chipotle Supun Sandaru Fernando North Dakota State University Introduction Steve Ells, the founder of Chipotle who graduated from the University of Colorado and then from the Culinary Institute of America, opened Chipotle in 1993 as to make money to fund his fine-dining restaurant that he dreamed. The initial idea of back up business took off and within one month, it started selling 1,000 burritos per day which…

Sarah Johnson was out getting groceries one day for her family of three. She stopped to pick up some eggs at her local supermarket. However, just 12 hours after eating the eggs everyone was starting to feel the early symptoms of Salmonella. This is just one example of the controversial topic that is Congress strengthening food safety regulations. Agencies and Federations have been monitoring food safety for decades now; even meat has been regulated as early as the Federal Meat Inspection Act of…

Making the Cajun delicacy Jambalaya is very complex. I get all required ingredients together, cook multiple types of meat, and assemble everything together to create my dish. The base of the dish is tomatoes, green peppers, white rice, and onions, I start with the very freshest ingredients that can be found. I minced up all of the base ingredients, and put them into a bowl so that the flavors can mingle together. Magnitudes of different types of meats can be used chicken, shrimp, pork, kielbasa,…

Numerous people believe owning an exotic pet, such as a tiger or a lion would be fine, since some people view these exotic animals as normal average pets. However, not many Americans take into consideration the effects these exotic animals can cause to humans and to the animals themselves. In National Geographic, the author of the article,“Exotic Pets”, Lauren Slater, presents a graph to show that 66% of exotic animals are owned privately, 28% of the animals are owned by the zoo, and 6%…

bacterial count is higher on MCC than on EMB. The bacterial isolates and their frequency of isolation from dumpsites were Escherichia coli (33.3%), Klebsiella spp.(16.7%) ,Pseudomonas spp. (13.3%), Proteus spp.(10%), Streptococcus spp. (8.3%), Salmonella spp. (6.7%), Staphylococcus aureus (6.7%) and Enterobacter spp. (5.0%). The high presence of pathogenic bacteria from dumpsites is of serious public health concern and highly significant. Antibiotic susceptibility testing using the disc…