Posted on 08/19/2007 5:50:04 PM PDT by JACKRUSSELL
Consumers should not eat one brand of baby carrots sold recently at Costco stores because of contamination by shigella, which causes fever, nausea and vomiting, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency has warned.
The carrots are labelled Los Angeles Salad Company Genuine Sweet Baby Carrots, and they come from Mexico.
Costco has issued a voluntary recall of the carrots, which are known to have made four people sick. They were sold in British Columbia, Alberta, Ontario, Quebec and Newfoundland.
The carrots are sold in 672-gram bags, carrying these codes: ITM 50325, and UPC 8 31129 00137 7. The sell-by dates are up to and including Aug. 13.
According to the inspection agency website, the symptoms of shigellosis often feel like the flu.
"Symptoms can appear within 12 to 50 hours after eating contaminated food, but usually don't appear until three to seven days later. People who have shigellosis are usually ill for three to 14 days," the website says.
Food is usually contaminated by shigella when it comes in contact with water polluted by human sewage.
This is one thing I don’t have to worry about.
That’s one nasty bug. Will leave you literally crapping your guts out.
I want American food.
Why can’t I just pay more and get what I want?
Wonder when they will recall ours?
Are you talkin' to me?
And in all honesty, those Mexican Carrots - at least to the final consumer - probably were not significantly more expensive than comparable US Grown carrots. Of course, the Los Angeles Salad Company probably made an extra 5 cents per bag over US produced carrots....
Mexican sewage food ping.
I acquired Shigella in 1976. Was off work 90 days with two weeks in the hospital. Was active fore and aft and in latter stages self destructing as bits and pieces of interior were ejecting with simple act of attempting to drink water. Almost expired. Doctor thought it was something else for two weeks before he finally hit on the correct diagnosis and appropriate pharmaceuticals.
This stuff is really nasty. My case was acquired eating lunch aboard a ME Containership with Arab crew handling the food. Never ate on board a ME ship again.
BTW...Couldn’t ever drink Beer, eat any Peanuts or Nuts anykind, lettuce, Spinach, anything with seeds such as Hamburger Buns...the list goes on since. Of course have developed adequate diet since, but just trying to advise how nasty this stuff is.
That’s terrible and thanks for the details - warnings. You must have very nearly died, because fluid loss inorexably brings on organ failure.
I can just hear Rush tomorrow! He has been warning about the dangers of carrots for years! :)
I have never cared for anyone with it, but did study it in microbiology. It is very nasty.
You can. Shop at your local farmer’s market, checking with the vendor to make sure the produce you want is grown in your local area.
The good news is that you probably won’t pay more for the same vegetables.
If you have access to a Whole Foods Market store in your area, you can shop there as well. Many carry local and/or organically-grown produce.
And of course you can grow your own food, or help a neighbor with his or her garden...
Have people stopped washing their raw food....especially root crops which should be scrubbed thoroughly.
I'm sure they put this came from mexico on the package. LOL
You can, but it’ll probably still be American-grown, picked by illegal Mexicans.
I didn’t know Helen Thomas liked carrots...
Shigella... isn’t that a zoraster type virus like chicken pox and herpes?
Can’t remember...
I just checked the COSTCO carrots I purchased this week....they are Organic, from Earthbound...says “Produce of USA”....and says they are “washed.” But, I ALWAYS WASH THEM ANYWAY! However, with people cooking less and less of their own meals....I think many of the younger set don’t even think about washing produce.....my 16 yo niece was here and made a sandwich, with some Romaine I had in the fridge....I asked.....DID YOU WASH IT FIRST....”No” was her reply.....sheesh.....and NO, I don’t always wash lettuce before I refrigerate it.
Of course, it still might have been PICKED by illegals...
I’d rather pay more for California grown foods like in the old days.
Mexico. Who'da thunk?
At least you can get fresh fecal matter on your spinach that way...
Heck, I go out to my garden, yank a radish out, brush it off and eat it there on the spot.
I tend to think part of the reason Americans seem to be getting more allergies and autoimmune diseases is because you gotta give the immune system something to do!
Meanwhile, every year as my garden dies back, I let some of the plants go to seed. So I have radish, lettuce, cabbage, carrots, peas, really way, way too much to mention.
I need to get one of those starter dealies that warms the soil ever so slightly.
That way I can get the stuff in the ground earlier next spring.
I buy those all the time. The kids and I snack on them. Baby carrots are the one produce I never even think about washing...What’s really scary is that I put them in my kids’ lunch for school several days a week.
We owe this to the globalists........
I hope they get sick with the same illnesses they have exposed us to........
Sounds like you are lucky to be alive.
Well....I envy you....I have tomatoes, (actually, one really monster plant this year) and some greens, a cucumber or two....but, I live in a CONDO!
We always wash our produce, even if it has been pre-washed at the packer’s. It freshens the flavor, for one thing; for another, it removes plain old dirt.
Wather here has been terrible this year. I got like 12 tomato plants and so far got like 3 ripe tomatoes.
Strawberries, lettuce, peas and cabbage did good though.
NewsFlash: “Crappy Costco Carrots Cause Canadians Cramps”
You could start your sprouts in trays indoors, then transplant them after the first frost. My dear old dad (”Mr. Garden”) does that, and, man, the goodies that come out of his garden...
My first thought too!
[We owe this to the globalists........I hope they get sick with the same illnesses they have exposed us to........]
It seems to me that if you don’t like “globalization” and the expanded trade in produce that comes with it, then no one is forcing you to actually BUY those trade goods that allegedly are saturated with deadly diseases. Only eat stuff from your own garden or stuff bought from your own neighborhood market just like the good old days (when there apparently was no such thing as disease spread by local crop and produce contamination :^/)
“At least you can get fresh fecal matter on your spinach that way...”
I laugh when I see portapots sitting at one end of a mile long field and the migrants have been working at the opposite end for a week solid.
Can’t find the word “Mexico” or “imported” anywhere on their website:
http://www.lasalad.com/food_safety.html
I keep wondering why all the focus is on "energy independence" while "food independence" seems of little concern. Businesses are flocking to sell foreign food or to move production out of the country and abandoning farms in the USA.
Yes, Lucky to be alive. This 6ft 3” guy Went from 205 lbs. to 160 lbs. in a short period of time. Yes, dhydration was a serious problem as I couldn’t hold down anything much less water.
I have been to the Dr. for multiple visits about the ongoing inability to digest various foods, but am told I’m just fine, so if I have Colitis (Yes have the symptoms, but not the diagnosis) I don’t know. Seems to me I do LOL.
Hey all, Life is beautiful here at the Ranch and in America regardless of anything, and thanks for your nice responses. I just wanted to confirm FearlessFreep’s comment about how nasty this stuff is. It really is. Believe me.
Our prayers for all those suffering today from the Shigella they contracted from those Mexican grown carrots.
There was an article I think yesterday or Friday here at FR about FDA having more rejects of Mexican Produce and product than China. Doesn’t seem that anything is safe anymore.
Thanks very much for posting. Health/Life BUMP-TO-THE-TOP!
It would be nice if we could all do that, but unfortunately, US farmers can't compete with the cheap products brought in from other countries. People living in big cities and many rural folks aren't able to have gardens. Our own government has been putting US farmers out of business by bringing tainted food in from around the world. We seldom had these problems when Americans produced our food. I would gladly pay more to have food grown in the US, by farmers who actually care about us.
You must be very proud of such a bountiful garden. /Salute
That's a very good question and I'd like the answer to it too. Corporate America seems to buy many who are in Congress and the White House. That's the only reason I can think of for them to sell us down the river. DC politics are all about greed and lust for power.
It actually did way better last year. This year, I got alot of foliage but not much yield.
The problem is that the ground has to heat up above like 57 degrees to get a good garden. And here near Seattle, it doesn’t do that till like June.
Maybe next year I will try seeing if I can put something black on the ground so it absorbs light better.
A fellow who lives near here and does alot of gardening says his secret is wood ash. He just collects a bunch of wood from wherever, burns up a bunch of it, and tills the ash into the ground.
Adds back into the soil many important nutrients. His carrots were like gangbusters, so he must know what he’s talking about.
Ewwwwwwwwww
That’s what they’re packaging and selling as “food”.
I just had carrots in my freshly-made soup from the caf... hope they aren’t from Canada via Mexico!
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