Posted on 08/03/2018 12:00:01 PM PDT by BenLurkin
The Agriculture Department's Food Safety and Inspection Service says the products, distributed by Caito Foods, have come into contact with lettuce contaminated with cyclospora.
The parasite causes intestinal illnesses with flu-like symptoms and other ailments, which can last up to several months.
The USDA says Caito Foods was notified from their lettuce supplier, Fresh Express, that the chopped romaine used in some of the salads was being recalled.
The products affected by the recall have best-by dates ranging from July 18 through July 23.
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Sure ‘nuf, another sh!thole country problem:
https://www.cdc.gov/parasites/cyclosporiasis/gen_info/faqs.html
Anyone ever seen a recall on bacon or macaroni and cheese?
When I was younger, my sister worked as a pharmacist at some drug store chain. She thought it fairly odd that they sold automobile tires there.
The last time I went to Walgreens, my debit card was compromised, and I had to get a new one, and the bank had to credit four charges to my old card.
I’ll never go back again.
This article fails to state where the bad produce came from.
What do parasites have to be worried about?
I can’t think of an easier life.
If I’m going to eat salad, I usually make it myself.
Pre-made salads tend to have too much cheese or freeze-dried bacon (very salty!) in it. If it’s Waldorf, the raisins may be hard and shrunken.
I would not think of buying such a perishable item as leafy salad at a Walgreens. Trader Joes may have a good salad, but at a jacked up price due to low quantities in stock. Trader Joes is similar to Whole Foods in that way.
There used to be (as late as the early 80’s) a large grocery store on Empire Way in Seattle (Now it’s MLK JR. Way) where they also had an auto parts counter. They also did brake and valve grinding.
Every now and then some guy would walk into the front doors of the grocery store pushing a grocery basket with the heads off his V8 in them.
The parking lot was a bit trashy.
Our society has been slowly cleaning up every year. If you could go back in time 40 years a lot of places you like now would seem like real dumps. Standards keep ratcheting up, but so slow we don’t really notice.
Produce, particularly greens, is a highly regulated, and very risky business proposition. One sees recalls on a weekly basis.
Profits on handling fresh produce for direct consumption without any further preparation are very low. Prices need to rise dramatically to get the regulatory and health risk in line with the reward.
A “parasite worry”
= Fecal contamination
= crop pickers taking dumps in the field
= wiping their arses with the cilantro, or other soft leaves from the produce.
George Lopez joked about it... but he probably eats way more cilantro than I ever did and probably more than the majority of the gringo’s he despises.
A long time Argentinian colleague of mine warned me off eating greens out in restaurants 2 decades ago after a few bouts of “greens disease.”
That is correct. It also fails to state that the parasite comes from fecal contamination. Given all of the illegals working in agriculture, it could very well have come from right here.
Parasites are organic, aren’t they?
Good point. All this Organic/Raw stuff is going to carry all the natural contaminants. The processed stuff will tend to kill the contaminating organisms, much like they also contribute to killing us. I do recall, however, a rash of Listeria containing hot dogs. How anything can live in a hot dog I will never understand.
What’s up with all of the salad recalls lately?
Part of it is the various government agencies are becoming much better at finding various disease-causing bugs.
Here’s a WaPo article on the subject:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/what-you-need-to-know-about-food-recalls/2018/07/13/4fbd294e-74b8-11e8-805c-4b67019fcfe4_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.ff6738bebecf
Very informative. Thanks. :D
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