Well Booker T and Steve Cropper and Duck Dunn should be relieved.
Posted on 12/11/2006 10:46:22 PM PST by neverdem
Maybe the green onions were not the culprit after all.
As the number of confirmed or suspected cases of E. coli infection rose to 400 yesterday, federal officials said that their testing had failed to confirm preliminary findings by Taco Bell that some green onions in its restaurants were contaminated. The chain removed green onions from its restaurants last week.
“There’s nothing to implicate green onions right now,” said Dr. David Acheson, chief medical officer for food safety at the federal Food and Drug Administration. “We have not ruled out any food ingredient. We haven’t ruled any in, and we haven’t ruled any out, and that includes green onions.”
At the same time, the New York State Health Department retracted last week’s announcement that its more sophisticated tests of green onions from a Taco Bell on Long Island had found the virulent strain, E. coli O157:H7, believed to have sickened more than 300 people in New York.
Instead, the agency said, that sample was actually white onions that had been mislabeled, and the strain of E. coli found was not the same as the one that had caused illness.
Health officials in New Jersey also said yesterday that their testing had not found contamination in green onions, though the samples examined had been shipped several days after the outbreak began last month.
Taco Bell issued a statement last night saying that while its initial green onion tests were “presumptively positive” for E. coli, its further testing, like the Food and Drug Administration’s, was negative. Additional testing of more than 300 other samples of food also was negative, the company said.
As a precaution, Taco Bell said it had switched to a new produce supplier for the affected states...
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Health officials in New Jersey also said yesterday that their testing had not found contamination in green onions, though the samples examined had been shipped several days after the outbreak began last month.
Could be a mixup at NYT, this may be a review of a Monty Python movie.
Considering that the volume of a single lethal dose of Polonium probably dwarfs Taco Bell's nationwide 'scallion' usage for an entire year, I'm not surprised to learn that this dog don't hunt...
As a precaution, I stopped eating Taco Smell food years ago.
Now THAT's funny!
Your Government at work. "White Onions, Green Onions, who can tell the difference?"
Mighty nice of them to have announced the name of the grower of these onions last week.
Well Booker T and Steve Cropper and Duck Dunn should be relieved.
"Federal Tests Find No E. Coli in Green Onions"
Jake and Elwood could have told them that.
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Instead, the agency said, that sample was actually white onions that had been mislabeled, and the strain of E. coli found was not the same as the one that had caused illness.
Congratulations... you just bought yourself a multimillion dollar lawsuit. Hope you are ready because the company that provided those green onions you announced to the world that were contaminated is going to sue your ass so bad your momma will be ashamed of you!
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