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Food Safety at Ohio Farmers’ Markets

Earlier this week it was brought to our attention that a vendor in Lake County was cited by the local board of health for selling “washed” vegetables and greens. The local health department official was enforcing a new interpretation of food safety rules that assumed washing greens with water was “food processing” and a farmer [...]