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…
