(NEXSTAR) – How you treat your produce after you get home from the store could be exposing you to bacteria that cause foodborne illness, experts say. In some cases it’s not how, but what gets washed.

Some fruit absorbs pesticides and herbicides, so even if the produce is rinsed off at the grocery store, you should still perform a proper washing (or three) after buying. In fact, here are several ...

In a recent study published in Parasitology Research, researchers used molecular techniques to determine the presence of the food- and waterborne parasite Cryptosporidium parvum in samples of ready-to ...