Is your environment killing you?

Scientists are still probing the deadly E. coli strain in Europe are finding the bacteria combines a highly poisonous, but common, toxin with a rarely seen "glue" that binds it to a patient's intestines.

It may take months for the global team of researchers to fully understand the characteristics of the bacteria that have killed at least 18 people in Europe and sickened thousands. But they fear this E. coli strain is the most toxic yet to hit a human population.

Most Escherichia coli or E. coli bacteria are harmless. The strain that is sickening people in Germany and other parts of Europe, known as 0104:H4, is part of a class of bacteria known as Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli, or STEC.

This is how I feel whenever I step onto a plane - we are breathing in the air of everyone in the big flying fishbowl! If the guy next to you 'whistles', there you go - you breathe in the same air. On a scarier note, I was watching CNN today, and discovered that over 50% of our grocery cart handles are full of contamination - including e-coli and fecal matter! Yep, really reminds me of the gold fish up there.

The recent spate of E-coli infectious on cucumbers got me thinking on how we could introduce TOMI's products in the food processing industry. SteraMist in particular is easily applied onto these hard surfaces to kill all the bugs. This inspired me to write a paper on the effects of Ozone and BIT on the food industry. You can download the paper here.