If, despite those efforts, a product is found to contain an unsuspected allergen, it is immediately ordered off the shelves and advisories issued to the public. A Long Island, New York, study revealed that a cup of yogurt with acidophilus a day will keep this infection away. Meanwhile, antibiotics kill many helpful bacteria in the digestive system, making the body more susceptible to yeast infections. Eating yogurt with acidophilus during and after antibiotic use helps prevent this from happening. It's important that you look for live cultures.
Pasteurization kills friendly bacteria.
Consumers must check labels to find yogurt brands that contain live or active cultures. Freezing can also harm bacteria, therefore frozen yogurt does not provide a good source of yogurt bacteria. N.B.- Officials at the Canadian Patent Office say you can't patent life forms and are battling Harvard University, the owner of the oncomouse which received a U.S. patent in 1988. But the Canadian Patent Office, after 10 years of investigation, denied a patent on Harvard's rodents. Now the case has been appealed to the Federal Court of Canada.