Processing aids for fresh produce: Safety buffers between farm and table
Story Date: 6/26/2013

 
Source: Gretchen Goetz, FOOD SAFETY NEWS, 6/24/13

Nutrition labels on items in the produce section tend to be short, if not absent altogether. While cereals, soups and sauces come with long lists of ingredients on their packaging, an apple doesn’t need an ingredient list for consumers to know what they’re buying (although it arrived at the grocery store in a labeled package), and the ingredients for bagged salad are only as varied as the different lettuces in the bag.

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