And they were in a restaurant which by anyone's definition was considered to be sanitary. And so it becomes important to trace what happened at the production end and to see if everything possible was done to make the meat safe. The problem is you really do have to depend on the govt's inspection system and the plant's willingness to worry more about the safety of our food than it does about its bottom line production costs. And that really is the basis of our story. Sandy, it could very well be that you did.
Most people never connect their stomach upsets to food borne pathogens.
The fact is that 73,000 people are sick each year just from E Coli and millions more from other bacteria found in meat. In the Milwaukee case, as few as 500 and as many as 700 were believed to have been affected. Only 62 had lab confirmed cases. And understand, that's just over a very short period of time in one restaurant where some bad meat got through the system. E Coli is found naturally in the intestines of all mammals.