by Sarah Wilmcow
Ready to eat salad
is considered one of the products most likely to cause food-related
illness, said Professor Hugh Pennington, an emeritus professor of
bacteriology at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland -- who worked for
the British, Scottish and Welsh governments as an expert on
microbiology and food safety.
His claim follows a Health Protection Agency investigation into an
outbreak of salad-linked Cryptosporidium infections that affected around
300 people in England and Scotland in May.
In the analysis of the exposure to different salad vegetables a
significant...