[Semper Paratus]

I damn well make sure I wash my fruit and vegetables.

[Jersey Republican Biker Chick]

HEALTH ALERT, PING!!!!

[calex59]

In Germany,when I was stationed there years ago, we had to be extremely careful not to eat the veggies off base because of hepatitis. This was caused by using human excrement for fertilizer. I wonder if our wondeful ILLLEGAL aliens are pooping in our lettuce fields and passing on this wonderful disease to CA residents.

[mobyss]

Hey, but at least is doesn't cost you the $5 per head that it would if the illegal aliens weren't here to pick it!

The only trade-off is you have to eat fruits and veggies covered with their Hepatitis-ridden urine!

[martin_fierro]

'Burgh ChiChis Ping Thing

[zipp_city]

In this country I don't believe that human waste is allowed to be used as fertilizer, but if the price is right we will eat anybody elses that is grown on it.

[Cicero]

We always wash our lettuce. But that means rinsing it in cold water and draining it, not washing it with warm water and soap.

I'm not insure that washing infected lettuce would be enough. And although so far this outbreak appears to be restricted to California, California lettuce is shipped all over the country.

I think they'd better trace down the source.

[hispanarepublicana]

Safest most abundant food supply in the world PING

[evets]

Unnngh...

[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.

[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!

[11th_VA]

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

[Oatka]

"This is a problem that deserves real attention, and people eating in a restaurant should ask if the produce is being cleaned carefully."

Stating the blindly obvious and giving out useless advice. Like the restaurant is going to tell you they don't clean their produce.

About a year ago two of my elderly fresh-veggies-only neighbors came down with some kind of stomach disorder. None of the docs could figure out what it was until one guy discovered they had a parasite. "First time I've seen this since I was in the Peace Corps." Took three months of $360 a month medicine to clear it up.

[capecodderathome]

The article says,
"This is a problem that deserves real attention, and people eating in a restaurant should ask if the produce is being cleaned carefully."

Yeah, right. As if the restaurant is going to say no? A typical bureaucratic suggestion.

Strange, how they won't identify the location of the dirty lettuce.

Richard

[EggsAckley]

"........people eating in a restaurant should ask if the produce is being cleaned carefully."


Yeah, like they're gonna answer, "well, no, it's not being cleaned carefully."

[SuziQ]

I don't even trust the 'pre-washed' label on salads, etc. I ALWAYS wash it!

[AxelPaulsenJr]

I suspect that the water used to irrigate these Mexican crops is not the best.

[wolfcreek]

Are they keeping up with outbreaks in other areas? Their lettuce is shipped all over the country.

[Brad’s Gramma]

Isn't this special???

[Stellar Dendrite]

ping