Northern Ireland Vegetable Washing Campaign Launched

The Food Standards Agency in Northern Ireland has today launched its first stage of the Agency’s campaign to remind people to wash raw vegetables to help minimise the risk of food poisoning. The focus of the campaign is to reinforce existing food safety advice about storage, handling and cooking of food, including raw vegetables.

The campaign is in response to recent E.coli outbreaks in Britain and abroad including one linked to soil on raw vegetables and another caused by contaminated sprouted seeds.