But is the putrefaction really worsening or are more people just noticing the smell?

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Bacteria which produce putrefaction and gas in the intestines cannot live in lactic acid.

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"In this case, due to advanced putrefaction of the tissue, no cyanide was detected" after the exhumation.

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Is it just a quirky paradox of the human condition that we eagerly consume things that give off all the signals of putrefaction?

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