Posted on 11/22/2019 10:43:53 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
An E. coli outbreak led to a recall covering 22 states and 97,272 pounds of ready-to-eat salad sold at Domino's Pizza and a list of grocers that includes Walmart, Target, Aldi, Albertsons and Giant Eagle.
The lettuce is the potential E. coli carrier in the salads made by New Jersey company Missa Bay, all of which are listed here.
Missa Bay sold them to food distributors in Pennsylvania, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, Alabama, Connecticut, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Virginia and Wisconsin.
Distributors sold them to retailers and they hit the shelves as the store brands of Target, Aldi, Walmart, Sam's Club, Albertsons-Safeway-Vons, Giant Eagle and as side salads by Domino's Pizza.
The latest use by date on the recalled salads is Nov. 1, so all should be long gone from shelves. But the concern is some salads could still be in freezers or refrigerators. They should be thrown out or returned for a refund.
A Thursday afternoon email from Aldi said, "The two products Aldi sold that were included in this recall, Little Salad Bar Chicken Caesar Salad and Little Salad Bar Santa Fe Style Salad, had been removed from our shelves already and they are past their use-by dates. All of the products currently on our shelves are safe to eat."
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I was once told by a nurse that all stomach “flus” are food poisoning of some sort.
But then another food “expert” says “Not necessarily”.
So there’s that.
How many “illegals” work in the fields where these were picked?
Ditto. I buy romaine and green leaf lettuces in bunches then clean them and wash them in a solution of a tbsp of Clorox and dish detergent. Copious rinsing followed by spinning. Then wrapped in paper towel. Fresh, clean lettuce ready anytime. No one gets sick at the house.
When you eat lettuce or produce that has human e-coli on it.
and not identifying that it was human e-coli is criminal.
Then, not telling us where this human e-coli came from is criminal.
This crap bug is being transferred by illegals with 3rd world hygiene to innocent Americans is a form of biological warfare on innocent Americans.
Probably more than we can imagine!
“I read somewhere that many folks who think they have a stomach flu actually have a mild case of food poisoning.”
Two summers ago, friends invited us over for snacks and wine and local cheeses.
They had bought the packaged veggie snacks for me as I was on my paleo diet.
Early the next day I had terrible diarrhea. The symptoms were the same as a few years ago when I got e-coli from a contaminated salad bar.
I convinced the on call doc to rx a 5 day course of Bactrim DS. My wife picked up the rx a few hours later. Before I went to bed, I had taken a day’s dosage. I had one mild episode the next morning. That was it re any symptoms.
I finished the rest of the Bactrim with no more episodes.
I followed up with my on call doctor, and he rxed another 5 days in case. I didn’t need them.
My regular doc emailed re How I was doing. I told him fine, and he said good call on the Bactrim.
I believe that I found out about the tainted veggies on FR.
My wife told our friends, and they still had the package with some veggies left. It was in the recall list.
I totally agree with you.
I got it a few years ago from Wendy’s. Three days in hell.
“No wonder vegans always look sick”.
And a lot of health food store employees don’t look very healthy.
A vegan couple in Farmington had a baby and the poor baby was malnourished until the girls mother and dad stepped in and made sure the baby received the proper care and nutrition.
I learned my lesson with bagged or pre-packaged salads, keep the heck away !
I've played it safe this last year and only eat cucumber and tomato salads prepared by me.
And for anyone interested....
Our nearby Sam’s Club has a yuge walk-in cooler stuffed with bags of various green veggies...lettuce, spinach, greens, cold slaw mixings, etc. Some of it looks pretty rank. I’ve actually seen crates of this stuff behind the coolers...in the OPEN AIR, waiting for who knows what...tio eventually get placed on the cooler, I guess.
Then there’s the complete bagged salads...one bag that contains the leafy stuff with other small bags of various ingredients (nuts, craisins, the salad dressing) dropped right in with the leafy stuff. Open all bags, combine and mix. Voila! Instant salad.
You won’t see a Porta-Potty on the work field; they all p*ss and dump in the field and on the produce. I’ve seen it.
If you do find a Porta-Potty, it’s always overflowing, and you’re told, “This ride’s closed”.
Glad I posted it. We all need to be informed.
We were the victims of food poisoning years ago and it was the worst thing ever with every one of us in my household getting it at the same time and from the same food.
you shoudl be ok with regular lettuce- take off the first few layers- and wash and it should be fine- but looser lettuce like romain should be avoided for now-
Thank you!
i should have said buy lettuce whole- a head of lettuce- you should be fine- buying it loose in packages is a no no right now-
I had it once from ecoli and developed HUS. That was scary.
Heh.... that won’t do it. Seriously.
https://www.livescience.com/8253-washing-lettuce-rid-bacteria.html
buy some ‘Activated Charcoal’ and keep it on hand- one of the few ‘natural products’ i recommend- coudl be a lifesaver=- take several capsules if you think you might have food poisoning- 5 or more capsules- it will absorb any poison- and you’ll pass it out fine- but do go to hospital- don’t mess around with food poisoning- they will pump your stomach, but they use activated charcoal too-
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