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- noun a species of bacterium normally present in intestinal tract of humans and other animals; sometimes pathogenic; can be a threat to food safety
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Examples
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Cows on the hills around the inside of the valley, downhill from those cows, the vegetables that are bagged and sold in our salads as "fresh", healthy salads, sides, and snack had a poop bacteria in them known as e. coli.
digg.com: Top News Digg 2011
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When has free enterprise ever cleaned a river, cleared the skies, or made the sausage safe from e. coli?
The Volokh Conspiracy » Quick Note on Sunstein and the Precautionary Principle 2009
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I recently read about researchers creating living e. coli bacteria from scratch I think Carl Zimmer had an article about it.
Fred Barton: Intelligent design group is just a religious front - The Panda's Thumb 2005
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Microbial analysis testing for salmonella, e. coli, and listeria.
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I can't figure out what's more ridiculous, that there are ten teams in the wild card race at the end of August, that there are twelve teams fighting for three of the four playoff spots the Mets, a.k.a. the only legitimately good team in the NL, can only not win the East at this point by having the entire team come down with e. coli, that the team at the top of the wild card race only has a .511 winning percentage, or that a team that's eight games under .500 is one winning streak away from being the top contender for a playoff spot.
another WorldCon bites the dust terri_osborne 2006
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There’s food poisoning, Cruise Ship Fungoo, wile e. coli, and the rest, but no “flu” for the stomach.
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As a teenager, I saw a few too many episodes of Dateline where they go around someone’s kitchen with an infrared camera to see all of the traces of salmonella and e. coli.
chopped vegetable, watermelon and feta salad | smitten kitchen 2008
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They’ve been testing for e. coli for days and they haven’t found anything in the spinach, though they have isolated it from the sick people.
Somewhere Popeye is Screaming in Terror and Confusion « Whatever 2006
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