It is important to handle fruits and vegetables (and all foods) properly to prevent food poisoning. Food poisoning, also called foodborne illness, is caused by eating food that contains bacteria or ...

A recent column on the Environmental Working Group’s list of fruits and vegetables with the most and least pesticides generated some reader comments. Most wondered if washing eliminates any pesticides ...

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(NEXSTAR) – How you treat your produce after you get home from the store could be exposing you to bacteria that cause foodborne illness, experts say. In some cases it’s not how, but what gets washed.

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. (NEXSTAR) – How you treat your produce after ...