ATHENS — As home canning season approaches, a University of Georgia food safety expert stressed the need for proper precautions to avoid foodborne illness.
A recent death in Washington state was attributed to botulism, a toxin that is a byproduct of the heat-resistant spores of a bacterium called Clostridium botulinum that likely originated from a home-canned food.
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