MsSonnetMarwood
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I provide this information from the experiences I have had as a Food Microbiologist for a number of years and the collegiate study of Biology For the sake of brevity, I'll snip most of this post. However, I would strongly advise everyone to go back and carefully re-read it. My knowledge comes from a slightly different angle. I'm ServSafe certified and will be certified to teach it shortly. ServSafe is an NRAEF standard certfication for food handlers and managers - many restaurants require it for management, if not staff. I don't have a lot of the heavy duty biology training. However, I do know a fair amount of foodbourne illnesses and how to prevent them. When you talk about foodbourne illness being caused by bacteria/viruses/parasites being passed on from human feces to human, it only takes trace amounts to do so. Scenario: line cook goes to the bathroom. Line cook does not properly wash hands. Line cook touches your food without using a glove or grabs a cup of ice out of the ice machine without a scoop. Boom. That bacteria can be passed on in the ice in your Coke, your salad, your steak, whatever. We've all had foodbourne illnesses; most often, we write it off as just a stomach bug or the like, because we're reasonably healthy and it was a mild case because we only came in contact with a minimal amount of whatever the contamination was. However, you need to translate that minimal amount into what you'd ingest if you engaged in scat play. Major illnesses caused by viruses transmitted through human feces: Hepatitis A, Norovirus Gastroenteritis, Rotavirus Gastroenteritus. Major illnesses caused by parasites transmitted through human feces: Giardiasis, toxoplasmosis, intestinal cryptosporidiosis, cyclosporiasis. Major illnesses caused by bacteria transmitted through human feces: Salmonellosis, shilgellosis (bacterial dysentary), listeriosis, staphylococcal gastroenteritis, clostridium perfringens. There's a whole host of other lesser illnesses as well. Some are nastier than others, and our ability to fight them off varies with our health, with how much we were exposed to, what we were specifically exposed to, and how fast treatment is gotten if it is treatable . quote:
Keep in mind that all of these things are NOT all collectively in every feces from every individual. Very true, but honestly, it's not something I'd like to gamble with.
< Message edited by MsSonnetMarwood -- 3/18/2006 6:56:34 AM >
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