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Hi Mozie - I thought of you right away when I heard about the spinach e-coli outbreak. You said you threw yours out but did you eat any of it before you heard about this?

I haven't bought bagged spinach or lettuce since that young woman in Mpls. almost died some time ago from the e=coli on the lettuce. I also won't eat from salad bars or served salads in restaurants as they are all bagged lettuce also. There have been times in the past when I have become ill after eating lettuce at restaurants - though not seriously ill but enough for me to trace it back to that salad.

I also thought of you when I heard about them catching and stopping the Columbine type situation in GB. I'll bet you are familiar with that HS and probably performed there at some time.

Take care.

From a food-safety point of view? Professionally speaking? I would eat a raw spinach salad today. I'm not very young (obviously) or very old (not quite so obvious), And I have a good immune system. At the most, the risk for me is a couple of days on the throne, wishing I was dead. And that is a long shot. Keep things in perspective. In a nation of 320M+, one person has died.

/johnny

Actually, I had eaten most of it. Last time I had some was Tuesday evening. So far so good.:)

I buy bagged greens all the time & eat some almost every day.....either mixed greens, or spinach. Guess I'll have to go back to un-bagged. Too bad because I really love the convenience but it's not worth the risk.

That high school (East) is where my nieces & nephews went to school.I've been in there a few times.Ev was a lifeguard at the park adjoining the school one summer. We live on the west side of town, so I hang out at West High, Ev's alma mater.:) East & West are of course arch-rivals in football, etc. There are other high schools in the town but East & West are the oldest and the rivalry goes back 100 years, so it gets nasty sometimes.:)

This whole thing is pretty shocking; and from what I've heard reported here, it was stopped in the nick of time; I heard one report claiming that the rampage would have occured "imminently."

God bless the student who gave the info. to the school authorities.