How could this possibly be?
What the hell ?
Good thing I love Strawberry-Rhubarb pie...
I grow my own during the summer WTF CDC
Very glad I am not in the Romaine lettuce business.
First, bankruptcy.
Then, a ten year overhang of massive lawsuits.
We are what lettuce pickers excrete?
“...no matter where or when the lettuce was grown.”
So, somehow your backyard garden has been infected with ecoli?
Gosh I wonder if some illegals were pooping in the fields.
Very odd. I buy romaine hearts all the time. Guess I’ll toss them. Seems odd this isn’t getting more mainstream coverage.
I won’t click on WP links so I found another source. I suggest that others do likewise.
I used to have a great deal of respect for the CDC.
Key words: used to
The origin of the outbreak is unknown and remains under investigation. The CDC did not limit the warning to romaine from any particular agricultural area. A common strain of E.coli was detected in six of the sickened people.
Five people died in the most recent major outbreak from contaminated romaine, which lasted from March to June of this year and led to 210 cases in 36 states. That outbreak was traced to the Yuma, Ariz. growing region, but investigators never conclusively determined the precise source.
The latest outbreak is from a strain that has the same genetic fingerprint as the one that caused an outbreak of illnesses from leafy greens late last year in both the U.S. and Canada. That outbreak was declared over in January.
All three outbreaks — the current one, the one from Yuma and the one from last year — are caused by contamination of E. coli O157:H7. It produces a Shiga toxin that can cause hemolytic uremic syndrome, a type of kidney failure. Until the 1990s, most E. coli cases in humans came from eating contaminated hamburger. In more recent years, after reforms in the livestock industry, the outbreaks have been most often associated with leafy greens.
This is a VERY broad alert.
I think the CDC knows more than they’re saying here. There’s more to this.
Looking at this logically, and without the lens of past ineptitude, or the fact the CDC was badly co-opted by the Usurper way back when:
If ALL Romaine is considered bad:
1. Could be there is no adequate way to trace it specifically, so it all has to go.
2. It was weaponized somehow, a vector for something dangerous.
Either way, whatever it is tainted with is bad enough that the CDC isn’t trying to cushion it for the growers, the good ones or the suspect ones.
I’ve never seen a food recall like this since the Tylenol scare. Tylenol handled that brilliantly, by the way.
Not even your own backyard?
Somebody doesn’t like California.
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Bookmark.
Even organic, the cdc says. I guess only from your own garden would it be safe. Why romaine and not all the lettuces, I wonder?
I went to a rock concert with some of the most beautiful “potty trailers” I’ve ever seen, with multiple bathrooms that looked like in a house. Let’s put them in the lettuce fields so we can actually eat the food the farmworkers pick. I don’t like outhouses much either.