Oh, Those Bagged Salads!

Robert Preidt, a HealthDay Reporter, wrote an interesting article on bagged salads. Researchers have found that prepackaged salads may promote the growth of salmonella bacteria. If you find even slight damage to leaves in the salad bags, they can release juices that encourage the spread of salmonella. The juices also boost the bacteria’s ability to form biofilms, which cling tightly to the surfaces they coat and make it hard to wash the bacteria off the produce.

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