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...