Spinach and Sanitizing

We often take for granted what happens to our food before it gets to the table, the process that converts that quadruped into a nice package of ground up protein covered with shiny plastic.  We've been aware of BSE, also known as Mad Cow Disease for awhile now and hopefully have that under control.  What I'm not sure of is what we do when it comes to Produce.   

How many times have you stopped by that organic fruit stand and happily chomped away on some ripe and colorful ovoid of goodness?  Did the farmer wash his hands?  How was the crop watered?  The recent spinach E. coli contamination scare  just brings to the forefront what we should all be aware of in regards to food safety.   We assume that because it's nicely packaged, it's safe to eat.  Obviously not.  Unfortunately, even washing the produce in this case wouldn't help.  So what are we to do?

Well, you could cook the hell out of the spinach, creating something that only Popeye would eat out of a can, but what I would really like to see is a new food sanitizing package mark, which would indicate that the produce was run through either a UV based or Ozone based sanitizer along with new FDA guidelines in the processing and selling of major brand produce.