Posted on 11/20/2018 12:14:28 PM PST by caww
Romaine lettuce is unsafe to eat in any form, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Tuesday in a broad alert in response to a new outbreak of illnesses caused by a particularly dangerous type of E. coli contamination.
The CDC told consumers to throw away any romaine lettuce they may already have purchased. Restaurants should not serve it, stores should not sell it, and people should not buy it, no matter where or when the lettuce was grown. It doesn’t matter if it is chopped, whole head or part of a mix. All romaine should be avoided.
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How could this possibly be?
What the hell ?
Good thing I love Strawberry-Rhubarb pie...
I grow my own during the summer WTF CDC
Did they suddenly just discover Romaine Lettuce is actually Hemlock?
Very glad I am not in the Romaine lettuce business.
First, bankruptcy.
Then, a ten year overhang of massive lawsuits.
We are what lettuce pickers excrete?
“...no matter where or when the lettuce was grown.”
So, somehow your backyard garden has been infected with ecoli?
Gosh I wonder if some illegals were pooping in the fields.
[ Did they suddenly just discover Romaine Lettuce is actually Hemlock? ]
Worse, it’s pot aka. the Devils Lettuce!!!
Very odd. I buy romaine hearts all the time. Guess I’ll toss them. Seems odd this isn’t getting more mainstream coverage.
I won’t click on WP links so I found another source. I suggest that others do likewise.
I used to have a great deal of respect for the CDC.
Key words: used to
1 report from Wisconsin out of 5.5 million people
The Romaine leaves are the preferred field Charmin of the more cultured pickers.
The origin of the outbreak is unknown and remains under investigation. The CDC did not limit the warning to romaine from any particular agricultural area. A common strain of E.coli was detected in six of the sickened people.
Five people died in the most recent major outbreak from contaminated romaine, which lasted from March to June of this year and led to 210 cases in 36 states. That outbreak was traced to the Yuma, Ariz. growing region, but investigators never conclusively determined the precise source.
The latest outbreak is from a strain that has the same genetic fingerprint as the one that caused an outbreak of illnesses from leafy greens late last year in both the U.S. and Canada. That outbreak was declared over in January.
All three outbreaks — the current one, the one from Yuma and the one from last year — are caused by contamination of E. coli O157:H7. It produces a Shiga toxin that can cause hemolytic uremic syndrome, a type of kidney failure. Until the 1990s, most E. coli cases in humans came from eating contaminated hamburger. In more recent years, after reforms in the livestock industry, the outbreaks have been most often associated with leafy greens.
The CDC is actually on the mend, thanks to Trump. He has appointed an actual scientist to head it.
This is a VERY broad alert.
I think the CDC knows more than they’re saying here. There’s more to this.
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