'listeria' is a correct and usable word in written English.
It refers to a type of bacteria that can cause food poisoning. Example: The government issued a recall on all packages of deli meat due to a potential risk of listeria contamination.
Dr Demokritou believes electrospraying could be used from farm to fork to reduce pathogens like E.coli, salmonella and listeria, as well as yeasts and fungi that cause food to spoil.Thomas Webster, director of the Nanomedicine Laboratory at Northeastern University in Boston, is impressed with the preliminary results but says the main concern is toxicity.
The tribe's name persists in dry-cured sausages across the Mediterranean: the Greek loukanika, Spanish longaniza, Italian luganega and Portuguese linguica.The traditional acid of choice is wine, though many sausage-makers today use a dried, powdered strain of lactic-acid-producing bacteria that kill listeria and other nasty bugs.
Michael McCain, the head of Maple Leaf Foods, a food-processing company, took the opposite tack in 2008 when people started to die following a listeria outbreak at one of its plants (linked to 22 deaths).
Pregnant women are advised by the NHS to avoid eating raw or partially cooked eggs to avoid the risk of salmonella food poisoning; to only have milk that has been pasteurised or long-life milk, and to avoid mould-ripened or blue veined soft cheese due to the risk of infection with listeria, as it can lead to miscarriage, stillbirth or severe illness in a new born baby.
The researchers, from the Centre for Applied Microbiology at Porton Down, write in New Scientist that listeria kept at fridge temperature double in number every 18 hours.
They have found that listeria, bacteria that cause a particularly dangerous form of food poisoning, seem to blossom if they are kept in chilled conditions and then moved to a warmer temperature.
Of the 192 tested, 18 per cent were contaminated with campylobacter, 17 per cent with listeria and 1.5 per cent with salmonella.
In an earlier raid on Rawesome, in 2010, the California Department of Food and Agriculture took samples of cheese made by a dairy in Missouri and found that they tested positive for trace amounts of listeria.
Raw milk may be more susceptible to contamination than most foods (though it's still ten times less likely to contain listeria than deli meat is).
Because listeria can grow in cold temperatures, it is perfectly suited to the era of prepared foods.
After the deflating news that Jeni's Splendid Ice Creams will have to destroy two hundred and sixty-five tons of ice cream due to a listeria contamination, it's important to stay positive and trust your ice-cream purveyors.
