Organic, Natural Foods Not Always Safer
Publish Date:
October 27, 2011
Shoppers nervous about food borne illnesses may turn to foods produced at smaller farms or labeled local, organic or natural in the hopes that such products are safer. But a small outbreak of salmonella in organic eggs from Minnesota shows that no food is immune to contamination. While sales for food produced on smaller operations have exploded, partially fueled by a consumer backlash to food produced by larger companies, a new set of food safety challenges has emerged.
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