Health experts emphasize that food safety is a shared responsibility that starts on the farm, but is important all along the supply chain. For fresh produce, particularly leafy greens which are often eaten in an uncooked state, proper food safety practices are critical to reducing foodborne illness. The California Leafy Greens Marketing Agreement (LGMA) is devoted to ensuring a set of science-based food safety practices are being following on leafy greens farms. But LGMA members lose the ability to protect consumers when the leafy greens they carefully produce leave their coolers in California and head to dinner tables around the world.