Citing health risks, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency has advised residents in Ontario to get rid of beef that was bought on the 6th of August from a Toronto store known as Kabul Farms. According to the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, the beef bought from Kabul Farms can possibly be infected with E. coli.

E. coli is a bacterium that is found on food products and can lead to vomiting, abdominal pain, and diarrhea and in the worst of cases even death.

The advisory has possibly been announced due an outbreak of sickness related to E. coli in Ontario. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency after teaming up with the Ontario Ministry of Health, Health Canada had investigated into the outbreak of sickness in Toronto.

The advisory though, that has been issued did not relate the outbreak of sickness with the disposal of beef.

In a further development, Lisa Mauer, Associate Professor of Food Science, Purdue has discovered a method of infrared spectroscopy in which E coli strains can be detected quicker than the existing procedure which is being used.

Mauer’s method, infrared spectroscopy was able to detect cells as minute as 1 E. coli on the culturing of bacteria for six hours, whereas techniques, which are predominantly used for the detection of E. coli need to culture cells for
48 hours.