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Default To Wash or Not to Wash....

Virginia Tadrzynski wrote:

> After the whole salmonella scare over the packaged/bagged spinach the bagged
> greens seemed to be the worst offenders since most were imported from Mexico
> from farms that used human waste as fertilizer..........if you didn't just
> pick or kill it yourself and know what touched it or handled it before you,
> wash it.
> -ginny
>

I thought the salmonella was traced to pigs that got loose near the
spinach beds? In California. Or was that E.coli?? I forget...?