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Published October 25, 2011, 04:26 PM

Local, organic foods not always safer

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.

By: Mary Clare Jalonick, Associated Press

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