Maybe They Won't Be Coming For The Burgers

After THC raised the alarm recently in First They Came For The Burgers, there may be good news on the horizon.  The Telegraph (UK) reports that one of Britain's top food experts warns that ready to eat salads are more dangerous than burgers.
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Professor Hugh Pennington, emeritus professor of bacteriology at the University of Aberdeen, says that "certain types of bacteria found in the pre-cut salad bags can be almost impossible to kill" and that "It is generally safer to eat a burger than the salad that goes with it".

According to Pennington, salad is considered one of the products most likely to cause food-related illness – largely because greens are grown directly in the soil, and some pathogens can only be killed by heat or strong detergents, not just water.  Pennington said that the solution is easy "You could irradiate it – but that would be a `no, no` with the public".

The professor went on to say:

" There are more risks with organic food. For example organic chicken has more bugs than non-organic because they spend longer in the field and have wild bird droppings on them etc  . . .Vegetables are fine and safe if they are cooked in the traditional British way of boiling them to death. The only danger comes when you eat them raw"

You can find the whole story here.

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