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GRAPHIC: How Do Your Salad Greens Get Contaminated?

No matter how hard salad companies try to keep dangerous microbes out of your bag of greens, they can't seem to guarantee that they've caught every one. Why? Bacteria from animal feces can enter the food supply in myriad ways.

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