Data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) suggest that leafy greens cause roughly a fifth of all food-borne illnesses. Most of the victims grew ill after eating chopped romaine lettuce from a farm near Yuma, Ariz. In the past four months, E. coli infections linked to leafy greens in Canada and the U.S. have caused 151 illnesses and two deaths. There’s no opportunity to cook it to kill bacteria.”By all accounts, farmers and regulators have made progress toward making lettuce and leafy greens safer. “Anybody who knows anything about food safety understands that.”

Source: thestar April 27, 2018 15:56 UTC