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Lesson No. 1
Pizza and
Pathogens
Bacteria: The Good, the Bad & the
Ugly
Brought to you by the Auburn University Center for Detection and Food
Safety.
Imagine a world with
5,000,000 trillion trillion humans.
Hint: There’s not enough
No air, air … Without
bacteria.
Brrrr… Nothing but ice and
water?
Bacteria even love warm
temperatures…
Red Sulphur
bacteria hang
out at
volcanoes to
eat!
Bacteria eat what we don’t
want to eat!
In fact, without bacteria
we wouldn’t be able to
live.
We couldn’t breath.
Or eat
salads.
We couldn’t
even eat a Big
Mac.
So, wait a
second.
Bacteria is
good?
Say what?
Introducing … The Bad
Guys (Well, some of
them)
Some of you may be familiar with
things bad bacteria cause.
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Body Odor (Gross)
Moldy food
Sore throats
Ear infections
Bad breath
You get the picture.
Foodborne pathogens [fancy word for
bad bacteria] also caused …
128,000 hospital trips
3,000 deaths
48,000,000 illnesses in all
That’s just in one
year!
How does all
that bad
bacteria get in
our food?