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Sure but food is is almost too clean now.

For example an unpasteurized cheese has a whole ecosystem of bacteria, each keeping the others in check.

The cheese like substances in most American grocery stores however are almost sterile, so a single bacteria like Campylobacter can colonize it and take it over unopposed.

Not all bacterial contamination leaves a detectable smell.




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