Could Chobani Yogurt End Up Infecting People With Tuberculosis?

You have to wonder:

TB Spiked 500 Percent In Twin Falls During 2012, As Chobani Yogurt Opened Plant…

Hamdi Ulukaya, the Kurdish entrepreneur, born in Turkey, who founded and is the majority owner of Chobani Yogurt, has publicly stated that 30 percent of his company’s 2,000 employees are refugees.

While it is not known how many of the more than one thousand refugees who have been resettled in Twin Falls by the CSIRP over the past decade have been hired to work at the local Chobani Yogurt plant, sources tell Breitbart News it is a significant number.

Are any of these TB-infected migrants cleaning out yogurt fermenters between batches? If so what happens if they sneeze at the wrong time, and inoculate the fermenter with TB before the milk is added? Could enough Mycobacterium tuberculosis survive and proliferate before the lactobacilli acidify the media, to produce a yogurt that could infect people? Current studies show some Lactobacilli have an inhibitory effect on TB in milk cultures, but I have no idea what species/strains Chobani uses, if they have that effect, nor do I think Chobani has any idea either.

And that ignores anything else the refugees may be carrying and innoculating.

It is not confidence inspiring to know that Tuberculosis is lurking in the very population he is hiring preferentially to operate bacteria fermenters that produce food that is being shipped all over the country.

I know I’m not eating any Chobani, given this.