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hamburger, tainted cheeses, or some other larly shipped from one country to another
contaminated food. As a result, the U.S. with minimal monitoring of the microbial
government has implemented tighter moni- safety of the food involved. To complicate
toring programs and Hazard Analysis Critical matters further, new microorganisms are
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emerging or reemerging in the food supply, are too small to be seen without a micro-
which makes tracking and controlling these scope. On the one hand, microorganisms
organisms more difficult. In addition, the out- can be beneficial to humans because of their
breaks can transcend national boundaries. In role in various geochemical cycles, such
2008 in the United States, an outbreak of as the phosphorous cycle, carbon and oxygen