Pressing your luck - newsbites - food poisoning - Brief Article

Better Nutrition, Dec, 2002

Suspicious of fast-food burgers after reading about outbreaks of E. coli? We're with you. The Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta says there is no such thing as "24-hour flu"--just undiagnosed food poisoning. Brown beef isn't necessarily safe. Old meat can brown prematurely, appearing cooked when it's only a bite away from causing ptomaine poisoning.

Try this: Press down on your burger. If the juice that emerges is nearly yellow, with no trace of red, the burger likely is safe. Now about those arteries ...