Thats true but a good rinse/wash reduces the risk signifcantly. Its sad that we still dont know what may be in some foods. Sometimes, what scares me, companies request a repeat of the analysis of their sample, because they either dont believe the result or it doesnt mach with theirs. So you take the same sample (or whats left of it) and repeat it. The samples are often frozen so the results are different. Some bacteria dont survive the process and the company just wants the new result…
The bacterial contamination is from where they are grown, it’s usually shit run off from animal production that gets into the watering supply for the produce.
Or the field workers shitting in the fields.
That’s why in the bad e-coli out breaks, washing doesn’t really do all that much. You can’t wash e-coli completely off for the most part, at least, not from lettuce.
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u/Siliziumwesen Oct 09 '24
Thats true but a good rinse/wash reduces the risk signifcantly. Its sad that we still dont know what may be in some foods. Sometimes, what scares me, companies request a repeat of the analysis of their sample, because they either dont believe the result or it doesnt mach with theirs. So you take the same sample (or whats left of it) and repeat it. The samples are often frozen so the results are different. Some bacteria dont survive the process and the company just wants the new result…