This protocol was developed by the Allergy Clinic at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in Sydney. It is highly likely that the naturally occurring phenolic compounds in food will enhance the activity of bacteria added by man. In fact, I have one such study here somewhere and will find it for you when I get a break in the traffic. If she doesn't get some real help soon she will take her own life - and that, along with the Queensland Review of the Agricultural and Veterinary Chemical Control Act is taking up all of my time. Adding Bt toxins, antibiotic marker genes, enzymes to confer chemical resistance etc to food is absolute madness in my view.
Any testing done is only as good as the research questions asked.
If the right questions don't get asked we don't get the right answers. Further, any research is limited by what is known at the time the research is done and within the limitations of the science involved. Toxicology and medicine are incomplete sciences. Like fire, I believe science is a good servant but a bad master. Unfortunately, overriding this is the holy dollar that seems to take precedence over all and is driving science too fast.