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Man, I love bean sprouts, too. I always ate mine in ramen, after they'd been boiled with the soup for a few minutes. Imagine....dying from eating bean sprouts. In this modern era. Seems impossible. Not for 50+ people, it wasn't.
You can pretty-much assume tha e. coli is present on MANY foods -- melon rinds, almost all meat, sprouts and leafy vegetables.
It is also present in your milk. U.S. milk is one of the most disgusting foods ever. It is absolutely contaminated with fecal matter, because it is cheaper to let the cows live in squallor and then treat the milk than to run a clean establishment. That's just how it is. Google it. (There are a handful of small producers who make milk that won't literally churn your stomach. Please be a smart consumer and research which ones.)
The reason this happens over and over and over is that the USDA, FDA and EPA bend to the wishes of the lobbyists on K-Street. The big agribusiness has Food Libel Laws protecting them from pesky reporters. And the populace is ignorant and easily distracted.
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There's other stuff besides fecal matter in that milk. I won't discuss what that it is. Look it up, if you want. Prepare to be disgusted. Then again, most adults don't wash their hands more than a few seconds, and it takes a solid 15 seconds to clean your hands. THen again once milk has been processed and the germs are killed, meh. They grow store mushrooms in manure.
One of the jobs I turned down in my microbiologist days was screening for dangerous E. coli strains. Not all E. coli strains are dangerous. In fact, most of them are beneficial. The really bad E. coli is O157:H7; It produces a toxin that destroys red blood cells. Although not all E. coli strains are dangerous they do have one thing in common - they come from the intestines of animals.
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You want to know why salads are cooked in China, and the only raw food people eat are fruits that can be peeled? This is why.
Unfortunately the same damp, warm conditions that allows seeds and beans to turn into edible sprouts quickly is also perfect for the growth of disease causing organisms. And that's why so many people have been sickened and even died from eating commercially prepared raw sprouts.
Personally I like the convenience of store-bought sprouts for cooking purposes, but for salads and juices I grow my own at home, using an inexpensive sprouter and tested seeds from a reliable source.
This is what I've used for years, an Easy-Sprout from Sproutamo. Most health food stores carry them, or you can order them online for about $12-13.
to be honest I haven't seen bean sprouts in the produce dept. for years and it really doesn't bother me. I am guessing not selling them might have more than one reason; how many people would buy them regularly if they were sold? I have a gut feeling, not many. They don't sell them at our Asian restaurant either.
We just did a Hand washing test at work with some type of powder and a black light.
95% failed and this was after a 45 second hand wash including myself..
Scary and I was shocked after the scrubbing there was still powder on my hands..
I buy my bean sprouts at the Japanese market, and they have the sani-pac sacks.
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