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Article: Tests Find Wood Pallets Harbor Deadly Food Poisoning Bacteria

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October 12, 2009
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ORLANDO, Fla., Oct. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Wood pallets used to ship food in the Washington Metropolitan Area tested positive for three types of deadly food poisoning bacteria, raising new concerns about the risks wood pallets pose to the nation's food supply.

The discovery was made in a new test commissioned by Intelligent Global Pooling Systems (iGPS Company LLC), operator of the world's first pallet rental service providing shippers and receivers with all-plastic pallets with embedded RFID tags. iGPS gathered samples from wood pallets located at markets and food retailers in the Washington, DC, and Baltimore areas, and ...

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