Thursday, June 12, 2025

Don’t rinse raw chicken: nine food safety tips from microbiologists | Well actually | The Guardian

For individuals at home, less regulatory oversight means higher-stakes decisions at the grocery store. Common food categories such as meat, eggs, shellfish, sprouts, greens and seeded vegetables such as tomatoes and cucumbers are all relatively high-risk for contamination. 

"Now is a good time for consumers to be more cautious," says Yu, particularly with "high-risk foods like leafy greens, especially bagged lettuce", which is prone to contamination with pathogens such as salmonella, listeria and E coli because of the way the greens are mixed from different farms and mass-processed before packaging…


 

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