How Clean Are Bagged Salads?

[Jill in Apartment 413]

I thought you guys might find this interesting, I know it's going to help me prove to my again fiance that you need to wash those things!

http://green.yahoo.com/blog/the_cons...ed-salads.html

[alexikiss]

Oh wow. I remember when they were found contaminated but I eat them every so often. I'm lazy and I don't like to make my own salad. But I've never had a problem with it and I've even eaten it after it has looked a bit withered.

[olschesky]

i just saw something on the news a few weeks ago about bag salads being contaminated.....don't know where though.......ii think they are gross....lol

[vixki]

I never eat bagged salads anymore, I make my own! Once I found an insect on a piece of lettuce I was just about to eat, and there were loads of them. Put me off for life.

[stella9]

If I buy it I wash it in veggie wash and soap and rinse three times.

Stella

[paulinek]

I never eat bagged salads, apart from the all too frequent e-coli contamination scares (the last one in europe was those Florette ones) they are washed in chlorine then packed in funny gasses to stop the leaves wilting - much better to buy a whole lettuce, remove the first few layers and use the middle.