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Is lettuce full of bacteria if not cooked?

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Who cooks lettuce?: There are rare outbreaks of pathogenic e coli from lettuce, but it's so widely consumed raw that it would seem reasonable simply to wash it. You can't spend your life terrified of food-borne illness -- just be prudent.

Answered 7/21/2013

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