"This bagged produce, whether it's lettuce orspinachor melons, is what I consider to be a potentially hazardous food, " says Michael Doyle, a microbiologist who heads the food safety center at the University of Georgia.
The locavore ideal is a world without trade, not only beyond national borders but even from the next state: no Florida oranges in Colorado or California grapes in New Mexico, no Vidalia onions in New York or summer spinach in Georgia.