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E. coli outbreak spreading
If you have bagged spinach, do not open it. Throw it away.
Via AP:
WASHINGTON – Even if you wash the spinach, you still could be at risk.
Sober warnings for salad lovers came from federal health officials Friday as they struggled to pinpoint a multistate E. coli outbreak that killed one person and sickened nearly 100 more.
Bagged spinach — the triple-washed, cello-packed kind sold by the hundreds of millions of pounds each year — is the suspected source of the bacterial outbreak, Food and Drug Administration officials said.
The FDA warned people nationwide not to eat the spinach. Washing won’t get rid of the tenacious bug, though thorough cooking can kill it. Supermarkets across the country pulled spinach from shelves, and consumers tossed out the leafy green.
“We’re waiting for the all-clear. In the meantime, Popeye the Sailor Man and this family will not be eating bagged spinach” said Dr. William Schaffner, chairman of preventative medicine at Vanderbilt University. The Tennessee university’s medical center was treating a 17-year-old Kentucky girl for E. coli infection.
By Friday, the outbreak had grown to include at least 20 states: California, Connecticut, Idaho, Indiana, Kentucky, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, New Mexico, Nevada, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Utah, Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin and Wyoming, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Wisconsin accounted for 29 illnesses, about one-third of the cases, including the lone death.
Back in April, Dole Foods issued a voluntary recall for a couple of their bagged salad brands due a small outbreak of E. coli.
I’m not a big bagged salad fan, because – with only a couple of exceptions – they’ve never tasted very good. This is one more reason to stick make my own salad, rather than buy a bagged one.
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Oh, crap!!!
Well, if you never hear from me again, it’s because I had a bunch of spinach dumplings with my dinner at a Chinese restaurant tonight, and they seemed a bit undercooked. Goodbye, cruel world…
This could be simply some pissed of illegals realizing we’re not gonna let the moonbats let em in an give em amnesty or could it be a couple of terrorists putting something on Popeye’s favorite food?
I guess you could consider me a conspiracy tin foil hat girl cuz sometimes I wonder if the terrorists are starting some of these raging endless fires we seem to have in the dry months, makes sense to me, easy to do, just go for a little drive, smoke up some American cigs and toss em out windows. Just a thought, but I’d never call c-spann or start a tin foil website to discuss my theories.
I wonder where the affected spinach came from?
The bagged salad stuff I often get does have a less than perfect flavor, probably due to the processing. I prefer to just tear apart a head of lettuce and be done with it.
It’s Bush’s fault.
Yeah Marshall, Bush has not really done what he should have on the illegal issue, on this I do NOT agree with our President, on the WAR and interragaions, I DO.
I have it on good word that it’s a progressive form of E.coli……..sort of a mutated DNA strain.
Heard it was traced back to an organic food place,
thought organic was so safe, but it was probably unsanity workers, in our schools now we are worried sick of our kids getting TB from the illegals cuz they bring so much TB in, I’m not sure they make em take TB tests but I think it MUST be mandatory.
Just to be more clear, the *DNA/progressive*, tongue and cheek reference was just that.
“Heard it was traced back to an organic food place, thought organic was so safe…”
Comment by Drewsmom @ 9/16/2006 – 7:16 pm
Don’t forget; E. Coli is organic.
Funny thing about certain strains of that bacteria. We used to drink from a spring at the folks place for years. Anytime someone stopped in for a visit, they always brought bottled water, we call’em barley pops.
It wasn’t until my youngest sister and her husband began living in the house that problems (at least for him) arose. It seems his system wasn’t able to handle the cooties that were present in the spring fed reservoir. Another reason why none of us get sick? It’s hard to say, but clearly our bodies were/are able to ingest certain bacterium more easily than others.
My 10 year old heard this announcement on the news and gleefully told me “See that Dad? Spinach is actually BAD for you!”