ecoli help?

Question

does the cooking of vegetable remove ecoli
bean sprouts

Answer 1

Cooking the sprouts in boiling water or heating them to 160F will kill the e-coli bacteria. If you wish to kill the bacteria, the temperature of the food must reach a minimum of 160F. However, you must also concern yourself with sanitary handling practices to ensure it is not contaminated after cooking. If you used bare hands to put the sprouts into the water, and they really were contaminated, now the bacteria are on your hands and anything else they touched before cooking. If you had them in a bowl or colander prior to the cookpot, and used your hand to put them in, you need to wash both with soap and water before you touched anything else. If you simply dump the cooked sprouts back into the colander or bowl, you have recontaminated them. If you touch anything else before you wash up, your hands carry the contamination to the new things as well.
If you have some reason to believe that your sprouts are contaminated with e-coli, you should seriously consider getting your sprouts someplace else or doing without. E-coli is spread through feces- sewage, in other words. Most food poisoning cases caused by e-coli come from poor kitchen sanitation and poor hygene by the persons doing the food preparation. It won't matter how hot you get the food if it's handled in a dirty kitchen or with dirty hands.

Answer 2

As long as the temperature reaches 160 degrees and there is no mixture with a non-cooked E coli source after cooking.