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Old 10-18-2011, 01:07 PM   #13
Undertoad
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Buy only ground beef that's been ground by the store (if it has an operating butchery department, it does), and use it within two days.

Fully cooking meat that has gone off does not protect you. Cooking kills the bacteria that may be bad for you; but if the bacteria has had time to get going already, its by-products are a worse poison, not destroyed by cooking.
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