11.   Although the food is not hot to the touch, the acids are strong enough to kill bacteria.

12.   Ammonium salts sterilize the water baths, killing bacteria in feces and muck sticking to the eggshells.

13.   Among other things, postal authorities are exploring new sanitization equipment, possibly using radiation, that would scan the mail and kill bacteria such as anthrax.

14.   And Sun Orchard, an Arizona company, had already increased safety by steam-cleaning oranges and bathing them in chlorine to kill bacteria.

15.   And this organism has an unusual resistance to acid, including stomach acid, which we usually count on to kill harmful bacteria.

16.   Antibiotics are effective in killing the bacteria if taken before symptoms occur.

17.   Anthrax bacteria are killed by antibiotics, but until now most doctors believed that once symptoms appeared, it was too late to begin treatment.

18.   Antibiotics kill the bacteria after they germinate from the spores.

19.   Aramsco in New Jersey has started using gamma radiation to kill bacteria in mail for one client.

20.   Another option, though so far not taken seriously by the food industry, would be to irradiate food and beverages to kill bacteria.