I always wash my fruit before I eat it when I buy it fresh. Recently I've been buying frozen bluberries and honestly I sort of like just eating them straight out of the bag (after letting them sit out for a little bit). But I'm wondering - should I be washing the berries before I eat them? If they were fresh I'd absolutely wash them but I'm unsure if this is necessary for frozen.
Would washing actually remove norovirus (or any other virus) if it was present?
No, but cooking will.
is norovirus that much bigger of a risk on frozen as it is on fresh. I can only find like one outbreak in the US in relatively recent years linked to frozen blueberries.
I'm in Finland, there's been a few linked to foreign berries. All restaurants are advised to cook foreign berries before serving.
hmm ok. The berries say they're grown in the US and Canada so idk I think I'm relatively safe