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- <text id=93TT1715>
- <title>
- May 17, 1993: Cider with a Kick
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- May 17, 1993 Anguish over Bosnia
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK, Page 25
- HEALTH & SCIENCE
- Cider with a Kick
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- <body>
- <p>Jugs bought at roadside apple stands can be tainted with bacteria
- </p>
- <p> Most outbreaks of food poisoning are traced to contaminated
- meat. Federal investigators have now identified another
- potential culprit: fresh apple cider, the kind sold at roadside
- stands or refrigerated in plastic jugs. Tracking a 1991
- Massachusetts outbreak of infection with dangerous E. coli
- bacteria, researchers discovered that most of the 23 victims
- drank unpasteurized, unpreserved cider purchased at a local farm
- stand. Scientists warn that some small cider mills do not
- carefully wash and scrub their apples, which may have dropped
- to the ground and been tainted with animal droppings. The drink
- had been thought safe because of its acidity, but researchers
- found that E. coli can live for 20 days in fresh-pressed cider.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
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