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农业报道 - 一种提高食品安全的扫描装置 This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. 这里是美国之音慢速英语农业报道。Europes deadly outbreak of a rare form of E. coli bacteria has brought new attention to food safety issues. One of the problems when people get sick from food is that the simplest question is often difficult or even impossible to answer. Just what did the people eat that made them sick? 欧洲一种罕见大肠杆菌的致命爆发引发了人们对食品安全问题的新的关注。在人们因为食品致病的一系列问题中，有一个最简单的问题却常常难于甚至无法回答，这就是，他们吃了什么导致生病？Of course, one way to avoid these medical mysteries is to keep dangerous organisms out of the food supply. This is easier said than done, but scientists keep looking for new ways. 当然，要避免这一类医学难题的办法之一就是防止有害微生物进入食品供应环节。这说起来容易做起来难，但科学家们一直在寻求新的解决途径。Scientists in the United States have developed an experimental system that uses a high-tech optical scanner. The inspection system is meant for packing houses where produce is sorted for market. 美国科学家开发了一种使用高科技光学扫描装置的实验性系统。这种检测系统针对于食品包装上市环节。The system is designed to identify the presence of contaminants like soil or animal waste on fresh produce. These can be sources of Escherichia coli, better known as E. coli. E. coli bacteria naturally live in the intestines of humans and many animals. Most kinds of E. coli are harmless but some can make people sick. 该系统用于识别新鲜农产品表面上的土壤或动物粪便等污染物。这类污染物可能是大肠杆菌的来源。大肠杆菌通常存在于人类或许多动物的肠道内，多数的大肠杆菌是无害的，但部分大肠杆菌能够使人致病。The new scanner can also show damage and imperfections that might make the produce unappealing to shoppers.这种新型扫描装置还能够显示出可能导致丧失对消费者吸引力的产品损伤或瑕疵。 Biophysicist Moon Kim and the imaging system Scientists designed the system at a Department of Agriculture research center in Beltsville, Maryland. Moon Kim of the Agricultural Research Service led the team. 科学家们在马里兰州贝茨维尔市的农业部研究中心设计了这套系统。农业研究所的穆恩·金姆（Moon Kim）是这个研究小组的负责人。MOON KIM: We were requested, we were asked, to develop a method to detect contamination in produce. So we started with the apple as the model sample. 金姆：“我们被要求开发出一种检测农产品污染物的办法。于是我们以苹果为原型开始研究。”The scanner uses