Confections sans Infections: How Candy Manufacturers Keep Chocolate from Killing You

Wednesday, December 19, 2012 - 08:00 in Health & Medicine

Most of us know it is unwise to use the same unwashed utensils on raw then cooked chicken or eat raw cookie dough (although we may cheerfully ignore the latter suggestion) because of the salmonella risk, but we aren't used to thinking of candy and nuts as potential pathogen sources. Yet chocolate can indeed pose a health risk due to contamination by the stomach-churning, usually nonfatal pathogen. [More]

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