[JRandomFreeper]

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

[MNbelle]

I understand your point of view but I am not young at all (late sixties) and I am sensitive to stomach problems. However, that is me. As you said, only one person has died, but I don't want to risk it.

[ABG(anybody but Gore)]

I used to have an iron stomach, but now I tend to take it easier on the spicy or questionable stuff. However, since I usually don't eat spinach, I'm not really going to sweat this one. Now if they had put out an alert on e-coli infected beer.... ;^)

[Jemian]

Would soaking those veggies in an iodine or chlorox solution for about 20 minutes, followed by a good rinse with clear clean water, remove that bacteria?

Over here those are methods 2 & 3 for cleaning our veggies. The preferred method of sanitizing our raw veggies is to soak them in a solution of PK for 20 minutes followed by a rinse. I've been doing that for the past 10 years and have never had a problem.

I don't know that the PK stands for. I'm assuming since we buy it at a drugstore that it is the chemical symbol for these crystals.