date:Jun 08, 2016
rooms. In this case, when the mushrooms were canned, theStaphylococcuswas killedthe can was truly sterilebut the toxin was very heat stable and it survived in the mushrooms nonetheless. The problem was that testing for theStaphylococcusorganism alone did not detect the toxin that had formed, which clearly could survive heating. The tests used to enumerateStaphylococcuswere not great predictors of whether that particular variant was toxic and while we tested for Staphylococcus in this case and ot