How salad became a major source of food poisoning in the US

Re:How salad became a major source of food poisoning in the US by Fomite on Thursday May 03, 2018 @11:58PM (#16992078)

On the other hand, educating customers that food poisoning isn't just for meat is how you get people to wash their lettuce and stop drinking raw milk.

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Re:How salad became a major source of food poisoning in the US by greglindahl on Friday May 04, 2018 @01:32AM (#16992412)

I'm all for evidence-based recommendations. Does washing lettuce work for this kind of outbreak?

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Re:How salad became a major source of food poisoning in the US by Fomite on Friday May 04, 2018 @01:56AM (#16992492)

Would depend on the pathogen in question, how its on the lettuce (and indeed what kind of lettuce), etc. In this particular outbreak, it looks like the CDC's stance is "not really".

But there's a lot of ambient food poisoning that can be prevented by washing lettuce, especially in reducing cross-contamination (the lettuce wasn't contaminated, then got exposed during the cooking prep process, etc.)

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Re:How salad became a major source of food poisoning in the US by greglindahl on Friday May 04, 2018 @02:29AM (#16992611)

I'd be surprised that washing lettuce prevents the second, but I'm open to evidence that it does.

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