Lettuce the Likely Culprit in New Hepatitis A Cases (Mexifornia lettuce!)

LA Times ^ | 12/2/05 | Rong-Gong Lin II, Times Staff Writer

[evets]

Unnngh...

[calex59]

The thing is, it isn't legal to use illegal aliens for labor either, if your willing to break one law you are willing to break another. I find it interesting this is happening in CA, southern CA at that, where there are the more illegals per square foot then in the rest of the US.

[Jersey Republican Biker Chick]

You got it. One big heaping plate of bacon for you!!

[MizSterious]

ANY of the vegetables you eat should be carefully washed. Because it's a common practice to use human waste for fertilizer south of the border, the workers see nothing wrong with doing it HERE. That goes for other states that use illegal immigrants for labor, not just CA. In addition to hepatitis A and B, you have to worry about the various forms of e-coli. We use a little clorox in our water when we rinse our veggies. We've heard of these diseases occuring not only in lettuce, but in green onions, cilantro, and parsley, but it could occur in any veggies.

[Carry_Okie]

Health officials on Thursday identified lettuce as the likely source for a hepatitis A outbreak in Los Angeles County and urged residents to thoroughly wash the vegetable before eating it.

Wow. Not a word about halting imports from the source in order to protect the public.

Such effective health officials we have. Perhaps they have earned the title, "health offals," instead.

[Jersey Republican Biker Chick]

Clorox stock just went up again.

[MizSterious]

What's allowed, and what's done, are two different things.

[djreece]

Fielding added that consumers should wash even salads that are packaged and labeled as washed. Packaged lettuce has been linked to E. coli outbreaks, including a case this fall involving salads packaged by a division of Westlake Village-based Dole Food Co. in Salinas, Calif. The salads sickened more than a dozen people in Minnesota.

Didn't know this. Yikes!

[BurbankKarl]

You rinse off the Clorox I hope! Do you zap everything in the microwave too?

[July 4th]

That's how it works. If a farm laborer is a half-mile out in the field and has to go to the bathroom, they just go.

[Cementjungle]

I'm gonna pour me a drink and think about it.

We all know a drink is good bad good bad good bad something for you!

[1rudeboy]

Such effective health officials we have.

Maybe they understand the nature of Hep A, and you do not?

[LIConFem]

"Coming soon, schistosomiasis."

Isn't that the disease one gets from wading waist-high in the river Nile?

;o)

[Sacajaweau]

Spent one week in Mexico.....Spent 6 weeks recovering.

[MizSterious]

No microwave, but yes, we double rinse the veggies, once in the clorox water and once in clear water.

[11th_VA]

It's not the salad, it's the Jesse Jackson dressing ...

[SF Republican]

ANY of the vegetables you eat should be carefully washed. Because it's a common practice to use human waste for fertilizer I am not clear on this; if you use the human waste for fertilizer does it not get INTO the product? how is washing/rinsing going to help?

[LIConFem]

I'll bet ya lost a few pounds in the process, though!

[SF Republican]

Spent one week in Mexico.....Spent 6 weeks recovering
What happens in Mexico, stays well, in you.

[mewzilla]

Not just fertilzer per se, but by infected workers defecating in the fields.