News From The Journals Of The American Society For Microbiology: March 2012

High Pressure Kills Pathogens, Maintains Green Onions’ Taste and Color Green onions cause about five percent of outbreaks of food poisoning from produce, worldwide…

Unwashable Places In Produce May Harbor E. coli, Salmonella

Sanitizing the outside of produce may not be enough to remove harmful food pathogens, according to a Purdue University study that demonstrated that Salmonella and E. coli can live inside plant tissues. E.