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Article: Silence on spinach.
- Article from:
- The Shopper Report
- Article date:
- October 1, 2006
- Author:
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Food stores playing it safe on spinach missed an opportunity to show their shoppers that they were on top of the situation and really concerned about it.
In spite of days of front-page publicity, over a third of the shoppers we polled knew nothing about the spinach recall a week after it happened, even though it was still making daily news and talk shows. There are just too many headline stories these days, and a national recall isn't as powerful as it was when just about everyone read newspapers or watched network television.
Among those who did hear about it, ten percent were concerned enough to avoid all spinach, all packaged salads, or all salad ...
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Article: Packaged Salads Continue to be Healthy Food Choice.
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... ... outbreak of E. coli O157:H7 linked to packaged salads sold in the Minneapolis/St. Paul ... value-added produce -- including packaged salads -- and we take this incident very ... pathogens. This process helps make packaged salads cleaner than what consumers can do ...
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