Dr. Stephanie Bialek

"I don't think people realize that while chitlins are raw, bacteria can spread around the kitchen," said Dr. Stephanie Bialek, an epidemiologist with Georgia's Division of Public Health.
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"There was a lot of resistance" initially, Bialek said."People were concerned if they cooked chitlins before cleaning them they would cook the dirty flavor into them."

But she said people could not tell the difference in taste tests.

Stephanie Bialek, MD, MPHMedical Epidemiologist

Stephanie Bialek, MD, MPHMedical Epidemiologist

pacifiers and baby bottles," says Stephanie Bialek, a medicalepidemiologist with the Georgia Division of Public Health.

Doctor Stephanie Bialek, an epidemiologist with Georgia's

Division of Public Health, said she doesn't think people realize

that while chitlins are raw, bacteria can spread around the

kitchen.

The chitlin preparer can spread the bacteria yersinia