date:Jul 28, 2016
isoning was traced to Chinese canned mushrooms. These mushrooms were being picked in the hills of China and put into a salt brine to preserve them until they were shipped to some cosmopolitan area where they could be canned. There was a defect in that salting process, which while keeping other bacteria from growing, allowedStaphylococcusto grow in the mushrooms. In this case, when the mushrooms were canned, theStaphylococcuswas killedthe can was truly sterilebut the toxin was very heat stable an