Food Safety Market Blog

The best way for food handlers and consumers to avoid contracting or spreading foodborne illness is through education. Learning how foodborne illnesses are spread, what they are, and how to prevent them can go a long way in reducing serious cases.

Salad lovers rejoice! The Center for Disease Control (CDC) has   recently declared that the romaine lettuce E.coli outbreak  of late 2018 is finally over. The outbreak lasted nearly two months between October and December, affecting dozens of people and hospitalizing at least 25, becoming worldwide news in the process and the subject of many watercooler conversations because of the extremely large scale of the outbreak and the recalls that followed. Even though the outbreak is finally over, the question of why romaine lettuce is so commonly recalled is still on the minds of many people.