Triple-washed? — Wash those bagged salad greens a fourth time

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 [...]

Is it time to prepare the meat industry, the treatment we give to the banking and auto industries?

E. coli O157: H7 is a year for 73,000 illnesses and 61 deaths in the United States (not all red meat) is responsible gemacht.In the last two years were approximately 44 million pounds of beef recalled for E. coli O157: H7 Contamination . Thousands of our friends and neighbors were sick and dozens gestorben.So it [...]