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=Why We Should Study E. Coli in Ground Beef=


 * ==== Recently there has been outbreaks (just this year there were[| 7 outbreaks]) of E. Coli in ground beef so, I think that would be an interesting thing to study: ====

==== E. Coli is a bacteria that is usually good for you and, can be found in intestines of animals and humans. Good E. Coli can help you digest your food and is usually very good. But, sometimes E. Coli can get out of our intestines and into our blood. Now, imagine that some of a cows E. Coli got out of the intestine and into it's blood. Then, the farmer kills that animal and then we eat the beef. Then, the E. Coli would get into the hamburger we eat and we would get very sick and, we might even die! The average American eats about 150 hamburgers a year and there's about 307,745,538 people in the U.S. so thats about 46,161,830,700 hamburgers per year in America, imagine how many people get E. Coli from that number! ====

Who monitors E. Coli contamination?
==== The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) like when [|500 lbs of ground beef were contaminated]with E. Coli (In May) it was discovered by the FSIS during their rountine inspection of a meat packing plant. Another way people find breakouts is where lots of people start dieing or get sick in an area with the same symtons. The C.D.C. also detect large outbreaks of E. Coli====

My idea would be to create an E coli detetctor that can find bad E coli in food, like hamburgers or ground meat. I found two articles that show scientists that had the same idea as me:
[] Drexel Researcher Develops Sensor to Test for E. coli in 10 Minutes [] = References: = Click here:[] and here:[] and here[] and did I mention here? [] || = How do you get sick from E. Coli, a Step-by-Step process: = ||