date:Dec 06, 2012
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Food Safety News asked numerous experts and no one knew how to estimate what percentage of Yersinia enterocolitica found on pork is pathogenic the type that would be a threat to consumers.
Unless someone types the Y. enterocolitica, it is not possible to put a number on the percentage of pathogenic vs. non-pathogenic organisms, says Harshavardhan Thippareddi, a food safety professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. From the study reported in Consumer Reports, they did n