In Europe (EC (European Commission), 2006,
Lasaridi et al., 2006) and North America (CCME, 2005; EPA,
1994; Hébert, 2015), bacterial sanitation targets Salmonella and
E. coli, the latter being the focus of the current article. Where
raw or improperly composted manures were used on farms
(Beuchat, 2002; Islam et al., 2005) outbreaks of pathogenic
E. coli O157:H7 may arise