McDonald’s E. coli crisis reveals why vegetable contamination is harder problem than tainted beef

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the biggest difference is that beef is cooked, while fresh produce, by definition, is not cooked

Large-scale industrial produce is washed, sanitised and tested to a similar degree that beef is, but tests cannot catch sufficiently low levels of contamination, experts say.

Similar rigorous testing is applied to produce, and fast-food chains and other buyers often require it. But tests do not detect everything. The cleaner the product, the harder it is to detect

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