Local, organic foods not always safer

Tuesday, October 25, 2011 - 20:00 in Health & Medicine

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Shoppers nervous about foodborne illnesses may turn to foods produced at smaller farms or labeled "local," "organic" or "natural" in the hopes that such products are safer. But a small outbreak of salmonella in organic eggs from Minnesota shows that no food is immune to contamination....

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