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Study: Cattle fed distiller's grain prone to E. coli

Published on 6 December, 2007, Last updated at 22:40 GMT
 
AP
06/12/2007

Researchers at Kansas State University have found that cattle fed a byproduct of ethanol production are twice as likely to carry a potentially deadly strain of E. coli bacteria.

The research will certainly be of interest in Nebraska, which ranks second in the number of cattle on feed and produces the second-most ethanol of any state. The state had nearly 2.5 million cattle on feed in 2005, and Nebraska's ethanol plants already have the capacity to produce more than 1 billion gallons of ethanol a year.

The E. coli 0157 strain studied in the Kansas State study is the same kind found in a series of recent illnesses and massive recalls of contaminated meat. The Kansas State University study itself did not link the ethanol byproducts to those specific cases.

 

 
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