You may or may not know this, but you can buy food through Facebook Marketplace. Sounds like a good idea in a time of potential food shortages, right?
Maybe not.
Food safety experts think that buying food from “opaque” Facebook posts may lead to consumers eating adulterated or contaminated food. Some unscrupulous people may be selling adulterated food on Facebook, which is considered an “alternative channel” for sales because the food isn’t necessarily inspected before it’s shipped off to the buyer.
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