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You experience vomiting, intestinal cramps, and bloody diarrhea a day after eating a hamburger at a friend's outdoor barbecue. What type of illness should you suspect?
 a. stomach flu
 b. hepatitis
 c. E. coli infection
 d. gastroenteritis
 e. Clostridium botulinum intoxication

Question 2

What strategy helps to ensure that your home-canned food does not contain the botulinum toxin?
 a. Follow proper canning techniques.
 b. Freeze the canned food.
 c. Test the soil in which the food was grown.
  d. Consume the canned food within 12 months.
  e. Add an antioxidant before canning.



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Answer to Question 1

c

Answer to Question 2

a





 

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