BISC300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Lactose Intolerance, Ground Meat, Buttermilk
15 Dec 2016
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Bisc300 lecture food micro: the good, the bad, the ugly. Common symptoms: diarrhea, vomiting, muscle aches, ab cramps, fever, nausea, fatigue, can last from one to seven days, usually caused by contamination (bacteria, viruses, etc. ) Incubation periods (time bw exposure to pathogen and onset of symptoms) have various ranges. Innate tries to get rid of foreign sloughs of cells causes symptoms: also lose a lot of gut bacteria during this process important to survival and health but is a problem when lost. Common sources: raw meat, poultry, raw eggs. Groups at risk: pregnant women, elderly, young children (poor immune system for a while need to develop it), and people with chronic illnesses, people with compromised immune systems. Common types of food poisoning: botulism not herd of too much found in unprocessed foods like honey. Do(cid:374)"t gi(cid:448)e ho(cid:374)ey to (cid:272)hild(cid:396)e(cid:374) u(cid:374)de(cid:396) age 1. Can cause death in infants: campylobacter. Affects digestive system: e. coli, hepatitis a, listeria, norovirus (cid:862)sto(cid:373)a(cid:272)h flu(cid:863, salmonella.
