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CDC’s website. Due to food professionals’ F. These are among the most toxic materials
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produced by a biologic system. It has been be found on human skin, nose, hair, and
estimated that one pure ounce of toxin can many food items. The organisms, when
kill 200 million people. Treatment is by the allowed to grow in food, may produce a class
administration of monovalent E, bivalent of low molecular weight (ca 30,000 daltons)
AB, trivalent ABE, or polyvalent ABCDEF protein toxins called staphylococcal entero-
antisera. toxins (A, B, C1, C2, C3, D, E, and maybe
The toxins can be detected by animal tests others). These toxins, when ingested by a
using mice, as well as immunologic tests susceptible person, will cause severe nausea,