Salmonella enterica, a major food-poisoning germ, can enter the tissues of fresh lettuce where no amount of surface washing will evict it. The scientists who reported that finding earlier this year now think that they’ve gotten to the root of the issue.
To model salmonella soil contamination from livestock wastes, the researchers seeded sterile manure with one of three toxic strains of S.
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