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girnigoe t1_j6drk51 wrote

Reply to comment by eldude2879 in Why can an adult’s GI tract expel C. botulinum spores while an infant can’t? by curiousnboredd

oh, cannes food going bad after it’s opened is not botulism, any more than a salad going bad in the fridge. that’s other processes & organisms.

botulism grows in NON-ACIDIC, ANOXIC environments. so it can grow inside the can (no oxygen), before the can is opened. industrial canning processes get very very hot to kill the spores so they don’t grow even when the environment is right.

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