Handling ready-to-eat salad greens with bare hands exposes food to Cross-contamination.
Cross-contamination refers to the movement of microorganisms that could be harmful from one host to another. This host can be an object, an animal or a human being and the most popular microorganism that moves this way is bacteria.
If ready-to-eat food is handled with bare hands, there is a chance that bacteria from the hands will move onto the food which is the very definition of cross-contamination.
Contaminated food can be very dangerous health wise because it could lead to food poisoning which can be fatal.
More information on cross-contamination and food poisoning can be found here https://brainly.com/question/1134435 and https://brainly.com/question/23446083.
