Did You Know Carrots Can Kill You?

Did You Know Carrots Can Kill You?

Failure to follow proper food processing procedures with carrots can turn the vegetable into a juice that can trigger a lethal pathogen called Clostridium botulinum bacteria that can grow in carrot juice.

Did you know that the Food and Drug Administration said the neurotoxin formed by these bacteria, when ingested in even very small amounts, could cause paralysis, difficulty breathing and death from asphyxiation?

Did you know that in 2006 six cases of botulism in the United States and Canada were linked to refrigerated carrot juice?

Now if you didn't know, now you know...

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