"When many cures are offered for a disease, it means the disease is not curable" -Anton Chekhov
''Once you tell people there's a cure for something, the more likely they are to pressure doctors to prescribe it.'' -Robert Ehrlich, drug advertising executive.
"Opinions are like sphincters, everyone has one." - Chris Rangel
Natural Hazards: The source of the spinach E.coli contamination might be the cows next door:
The strain of pathogenic E. coli O157:H7 was found in three cattle fecal samples collected at one of four ranches under investigation, the officials said. The ranch is within a mile of produce fields.
....But Reilly said investigators don't have a "smoking cow" and cannot say for certain whether the cattle tested were indeed the source of the contamination.
Cows do produce a prodigious amount of manure. And with rain and run-off, it isn't hard to imagine the E. coli strain getting into the irrigation water. posted by Sydney on
10/13/2006 04:22:00 PM
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