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Safe  In the wake of safety concerns over spinach, lettuce, and
carrot juice, experts discuss ways to be sure the produce you're
eating won't make you sick. Font Size  It's Not Easy Being (a
Leafy) Green continued...  The FDA lifted its recommendation to
avoid bagged spinach in early October. But just when things
looked about ready to settle down, on Oct. 9 a lettuce company
recalled 8,500 cartons of green leaf lettuce sold under the Foxy
label after high levels of a generic form of E. coli were found
in irrigation water.  The spinach outbreak was the 20th time
lettuce or spinach has been blamed for an outbreak of illness
since 1995, by the count of the Associated Press. So what's
wrong with leafy greens?  Leafy greens are more prone to
contamination than some other agricultural products, Sam
Beattie, PhD, a food safety expert at Iowa State University,
tells WebMD. Contamination is typically caused by fecal matter.
And because lettuce grows close