Concern is over outbreaks traced to salad greens:

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Submitted by Lyle (United States), Nov 21, 2013 18:08

If you recall there have been a number of outbreaks of illness spread by packaged salad greens. In a number of these cases the contamination has been traced to animals pastured on nearby land. So removing the ban should require that no food that is typically eaten without cooking is grown on the land in question for a couple of years.

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