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To: Cents who wrote (2185)	1/4/1998 10:08:00 AM
From: Gerald L. Kerr	Respond to of 4356

From New York Sunday Times: Deadly Bacteria a New Threat to Fruit and Produce in U.S. nytimes.com (First of a series of articles.) By CHRISTOPHER DREW and PAM BELLUCK Anna Grace Gimmestad, 16 months old, was just beginning to put her infant stamp on the world. She would parrot the whir of a helicopter, pause on each stair step to kiss her parents through the banister. And every time her mother wheeled her past the grocery-store cooler, she would point excitedly to her favorite: the colorful, fruity juices made by a California company, Odwalla, that promoted its products as some of the nation's freshest and healthiest. To Christy and Chad Gimmestad, who live in Evans, Colo., these fresh-squeezed juices seemed natural and nutritious. But in late 1996, Anna became so ill after drinking Odwalla apple juice that, within two weeks, her kidneys gave out, part of her brain became clogged with dead blood cells, her heart faltered and she died. Health authorities say Anna's body collapsed so fast because the juice had been contaminated with an increasingly troublesome hazard in America's food system: a strain of bacteria known as E. coli O157:H7. The authorities say that while Odwalla was marketing its products as premium sources of nourishment, the fast-growing company had significant flaws in its safety practices -- weaknesses that may have allowed tainted apples to contaminate some of its juice and caused 70 people to become sick. [More] Gerry p.s. Odwalla is now using pasteurization on its apple juice. Clearly, however, pasteurization wouldn't be viable with fresh produce such as lettuce.