Posted on 07/27/2015 1:15:19 PM PDT by Red Badger
There’s more than just cilantro in the growing fields in Mexico, and that’s caused the Food and Drug Administration to institute a partial import ban on it through August.
The move comes after health officials found human feces and toilet paper in growing fields, which have been linked to hundreds of intestinal illnesses dating back to 2012.
The FDA will focus on product coming from Puebla, and all of it will need to be manually inspected and certified before being allowed into the U.S. Cilantro from other parts of the country will need to have documentation proving it did not come from Puebla.
In the report, the FDA outlines a number of different sources for the contamination after 11 farms and packing houses were inspected by both U.S. and Mexican officials.
Conditions observed at multiple such firms in the state of Puebla included human feces and toilet paper found in growing fields and around facilities; inadequately maintained and supplied toilet and hand washing facilities (no soap, no toilet paper, no running water, no paper towels) or a complete lack of toilet and hand washing facilities; food-contact surfaces (such as plastic crates used to transport cilantro or tables where cilantro was cut and bundled) visibly dirty and not washed; and water used for purposes such as washing cilantro vulnerable to contamination from sewage/septic systems.
Both Yum! Brands, which owns Taco Bell, and Chipotle told Bloomberg they don’t expect their cilantro supply to be impacted by the ban.
Well looks like the SHTF in Mexico!!!
Are you ready??
Would you like some nice shitlantro on your taco?
A decade or so ago there was a Dallas Morning News article about an American company that went to Mexico and started a lettuce farm.
They literally had to teach the workers to poop in the port-a-potties instead of the fields and what toilet paper was.
This story is no real surprise.
Feces explosion? Did the democrats have a convention there?
People who lack the receptor for that particular bitter flavor compound (like me, who is otherwise a super taster) love cilantro.
Sucks to be you...
Oh, poop....
I hate looking for the Italian parsley in the supermarket when it’s unlabeled almost impossible to distinguish between it and cilantro
Shocking that Mexico of all places would have this problem. Shocking!!!!!
Really I’m shocked.
I concur.
Coming to an American cornfield near you. Courtesy of Obama.
Fecal de gallo.
Wondered why my cilantro had been tasting like... lately.
Just what good, exactly, does that collection of clowns do that is good for us?
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Illegals: It seems that Mexico is sending more terrible things to the United States than just illegals.
It’s genetic. For some people it tastes lemony, for some it tastes soapy. It all depends on how your OR6A2 is configured.
But it just wouldn’t taste the same...............................thank goodness!.............
Well, now you can tell by the smell...................
http://www.betterrecipes.com/blogs/daily-dish/2013/04/16/what-is-cilantro-what-is-parsley/
P is for Parsley and pointy leaves.
C is for Cilantro and curved leaves.
I hate it when feces does that...
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