Botulism is an anaerob, does not grow in the presence of Oxygen. It is a risk in canned foods for this reason. Sprores can be found in raw honey as well, although rarely happens, it is recommended that raw honey not be given to the immune deficient such as toddlers or the infirm.
It is said that boiling canned foods for 20 minutes is preventative, but if there is a can or jar with a popped lid or swelling throw it away for goodness sake. It is extremely toxic in small amounts. As well E. coli takes only a very few organsims to make you sick. It can shut down your kidneys in short order and kills quickly. Again not something to experiment with. Salmonella on the other hand is not so risky for mature immune systems as they develop resistance. However still very risky for the immune deficient or in sufficient quantity. I would caution anyone to throw out any food that they think is spoiled, it is simply not worth the risk. Even for daily EIS consumers. On another note . . A few weeks ago my husband and daugher got food poisoning from something we all ate, at a restaurant. I had been drinking EIS, up to a cup a day preventatively. I did not get sick. Garnet On Thu, 2004-04-22 at 09:35, James Holmes wrote: > This is probably true. Botulism, once created by the bacteria, must be > boiled to break it down. The CS would have killed the bacteria, but > probably had no effect on the toxin already in the body. > > JOH > > -----Original Message----- > From: Garnet [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2004 7:47 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: CS>The Foolish Experiment > > > I doubt they were dealing with Botulism, more likely Salmonella. Even E. > Coli would have been worse than what they had. > > > > -- > The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. > > Instructions for unsubscribing are posted at: http://silverlist.org > > To post, address your message to: [email protected] > Silver List archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html > > Address Off-Topic messages to: [email protected] > OT Archive: http://escribe.com/health/silverofftopiclist/index.html > > List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]> >
