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<text id=93TT1715>
<title>
May 17, 1993: Cider with a Kick
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
May 17, 1993 Anguish over Bosnia
</history>
<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
THE WEEK, Page 25
HEALTH & SCIENCE
Cider with a Kick
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<p>Jugs bought at roadside apple stands can be tainted with bacteria
</p>
<p> Most outbreaks of food poisoning are traced to contaminated
meat. Federal investigators have now identified another
potential culprit: fresh apple cider, the kind sold at roadside
stands or refrigerated in plastic jugs. Tracking a 1991
Massachusetts outbreak of infection with dangerous E. coli
bacteria, researchers discovered that most of the 23 victims
drank unpasteurized, unpreserved cider purchased at a local farm
stand. Scientists warn that some small cider mills do not
carefully wash and scrub their apples, which may have dropped
to the ground and been tainted with animal droppings. The drink
had been thought safe because of its acidity, but researchers
found that E. coli can live for 20 days in fresh-pressed cider.
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</body>
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