CALIFORNIA: Family farms may wilt under leafy-green law - (Sacramento Bee)
September 30, 2007 – 6:34 pmJudith Redmond, co-owner of Full Belly Farm in Yolo County, and president of the Community Alliance with Family Farmers, writes in this op-ed that California’s bountiful vegetable industry has long been known as the nation’s salad bowl. But over the past 20 years, a revolution has occurred, planting the seeds for the current crisis of consumer confidence in food safety.
Much of California-grown “leafy greens,” including spinach and lettuce, now go to the bagged salad mix market. This transformation from fresh to processed salads has created lucrative new and distant markets, but also has set the stage for heightened food safety concerns that do not exist with traditionally grown salad (yes they do — dp)
Since last year’s terrible spinach E. coli outbreak that sickened 200 and took the lives of three, California’s agricultural industry has worked overtime to create uniform “food safety” growing standards for leafy greens. The industry-driven Leafy Greens […]
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