Hired by Jack in the Box to make food safer after an E. coli outbreak in the 1990s, David Theno advocates a series of small reforms in the meatpacking process and by workers in fast-food restaurants, in order to ensure that beef is clean and is prepared at temperatures high enough to burn off disease-causing pathogens.
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Chapter 9: What’s in the Meat
...be made, even within a system where government oversight of factory-farm meat production is minimal. David Theno , hired by Jack in the Box in the wake of the 1993 E. coli...
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