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firstname.lastname@example.org Salmonella in your peanut butter.
E. coli in your spinach. Listeria in your cantaloupes. With all
the foodborne illnesses going around these days, it’s fair to
wonder why anyone eats anything at all. It’s also putting
pressure on local, state and federal officials to produce more
stringent food safety policies and more vigorously enforce them.
The multi-state outbreaks of the last few years -- linked to
lapses by large food distributors -- might lead some to believe
that they’re better off shopping local and heading to a
neighborhood farmers’ market this fall. But not so fast, experts
say. Just because you don’t hear national news reports about
outbreaks linked to roadside stands doesn’t mean they don’t
happen. They’re just harder to trace back to the original
source. “There are some foods that inherently have risk, whether
they go through some mass production or whether they're being
sold at a farmer's market,” says Joe Russell, p