Why so Much E Coli in Fast Food Places?

Question

Is it because of the lack of cleanlieness in the restaurant..or the lack of cleanliness on vegetable farms????

Answer 1

Ground beef normally picks it up in the processing...the outside of a slab of meat can become contaminated and while regular cooking can kill the ecoli on a steak (the outside just needs to be cooked, the rest can be rare), ground beef gets the surface area of the meat all mixed in and therefore needs to be cooked all the way through. If this isn't done in a restaurant for some reason...maybe one of the patties is overlapping another...then the ecoli isn't killed. As for vegetables, if we cook them it is okay but who is going to cook lettuce and a lot of baby spinach is used in salads (raw). The plants can pick up the ecoli from sucking up contaminated (manure) nutrients in the soil.

Answer 2

Lack of cleanlieness in restaurants, plus they don't cook there food properly.

Answer 3

Sloppy handling and procedures, mostly attributable to sloppy restaurant practices. Most E coli can be attributed to either decaying vegetable matter or fecal contamination.

Answer 4

It's because of the virus in the plants. No its not for freshness. recently News reported one Taco bell had an incident like that. I am NOT going to go to taco bell for at least two weeks!

Answer 5

There is only one strand of E.coli that is fatal to humans...E.coli 0157H7 has been found in beef that hasn't been cooked thoroughly and recently it has been discovered that vegetables grown in Salinas Valley have now been contaminated with this species.

Answer 6

Global Warming. The world is going to hell in a handbasket.

Answer 7

I don't know. What I do know is that nothing is keeping me from Taco Bell.

Answer 8

no, it's because animals poop on the vegatables at the farms

Answer 9

that would have to do with the farmers its already tainted before it gets to the market

Answer 10

I've noticed that myself, and perhaps it is at both ends.