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Understanding Pizza and Pathogens: The Role of Bacteria in Food Safety

Explore the fascinating world of bacteria with Auburn University's Center for Detection and Food Safety. Discover the dual nature of bacteria, from beneficial microorganisms essential for life and food preparation to harmful pathogens responsible for foodborne illnesses. Learn about the impact of bad bacteria, including their role in causing diseases, body odor, and food spoilage. This lesson highlights the shocking statistics around foodborne pathogens, which are responsible for millions of illnesses and deaths each year. Let’s unravel the good, the bad, and the ugly aspects of bacteria in our food!

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Understanding Pizza and Pathogens: The Role of Bacteria in Food Safety

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  1. 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.

  2. Imagine a world with 5,000,000 trillion trillion humans. Hint: There’s not enough room!

  3. No air, air … Without bacteria.

  4. Brrrr… Nothing but ice and water?

  5. Bacteria even love warm temperatures… Red Sulphur bacteria hang out at volcanoes to eat!

  6. Bacteria eat what we don’t want to eat!

  7. In fact, without bacteria we wouldn’t be able to live.

  8. Or eat salads. We couldn’t breath. We couldn’t even eat a Big Mac.

  9. So, wait a second.Bacteria is good?Say what?

  10. Introducing … The Bad Guys (Well, some of them)

  11. Some of you may be familiar with things bad bacteria cause. • Body Odor (Gross) • Moldy food • Sore throats • Ear infections • Bad breath You get the picture.

  12. 3,000 deaths Foodborne pathogens [fancy word for bad bacteria] also caused … 128,000 hospital trips 48,000,000 illnesses in all That’s just in one year!

  13. How does all that bad bacteria get in our food?

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