USDA’s salad safety plan fails consumers
CU opposes plan to extend voluntary California leafy green marketing agreement to farmers nationwide
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CU opposes plan to extend voluntary California leafy green marketing agreement to farmers nationwide
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In Consumer Reports’ latest look at food safety, the magazine purchased national brands of bagged and boxed salad greens and tested them. Their findings? Despite those labels promising that the lettuce is “triple-washed,” you’d better wash it all again to try to remove the unpleasant-sounding “fecal contamination.” And oh, yeah, organic wasn’t any cleaner than conventional — at least with regard to these microbes.
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