Posted on 07/27/2015 1:15:19 PM PDT by Red Badger
There’s more than just cilantro in the growing fields in Mexico, and that’s caused the Food and Drug Administration to institute a partial import ban on it through August.
The move comes after health officials found human feces and toilet paper in growing fields, which have been linked to hundreds of intestinal illnesses dating back to 2012.
The FDA will focus on product coming from Puebla, and all of it will need to be manually inspected and certified before being allowed into the U.S. Cilantro from other parts of the country will need to have documentation proving it did not come from Puebla.
In the report, the FDA outlines a number of different sources for the contamination after 11 farms and packing houses were inspected by both U.S. and Mexican officials.
Conditions observed at multiple such firms in the state of Puebla included human feces and toilet paper found in growing fields and around facilities; inadequately maintained and supplied toilet and hand washing facilities (no soap, no toilet paper, no running water, no paper towels) or a complete lack of toilet and hand washing facilities; food-contact surfaces (such as plastic crates used to transport cilantro or tables where cilantro was cut and bundled) visibly dirty and not washed; and water used for purposes such as washing cilantro vulnerable to contamination from sewage/septic systems.
Both Yum! Brands, which owns Taco Bell, and Chipotle told Bloomberg they don’t expect their cilantro supply to be impacted by the ban.
Perhaps most of the domestic market for Mexican grown cilantro are the illegal immigrants themselves. If the stuff does in fact taste like soap, then that is the closest most of them get to soap.
About time. When you drive by the strawberry fields near Pendleton, you see a line of guys picking out in the field. And there is ONE port-a-pot wayyy off in a corner. You bet the guys hike over there!
Yet when there is an e coli outbreak, it’s NEVER because of sanitation in the fields.
My first time ever reading the headline with the phrase “feces explosion”. Good name for a garage band.
” I will not buy any seafood at the grocery store unless it is USA and wild caught.”
I get most of my fish from my local Asian market. Tons of wild caught fish. And the live Tilapia comes from Erie Pa. Good stuff!
Are you talking about the feces? lol
” It just seems to complement other flavors in Mexican food very well.”
Specially the Bowel Burgers Au Jus!
Hey, they’re only sheeting on the food that Americans refuse to sheet on!
Yeah, I am the same, I taste no lemon in cilantro, and I can see the “soap” comparison, but I don’t mind the flavor unless people use too much of it.
Wow, looks like Mexico is not sending us their best cilantro either. Paging The Donald.
Yep, bet you the same with imported food from
china and south
america..
Glad I grow my own. Soapy taste is based on genetics. Either cilantro = soapy, or it doesn’t. Personally, I love it
Over the years I got to be quite a connoisseur of soap. My personal preference was for Lux, but I found Palmolive had a nice, piquant after-dinner flavor - heady, but with just a touch of mellow smoothness. Life Buoy, on the other hand...YECCHH!
Feces explosion? I want a bottle of whatever salsa they're using.
http://www.kcbd.com/story/29643400/cilantro-from-mexico-suspected-in-intestinal-parasite-outbreak
What a coincidence that this article runs at the same time!
So everyone that doesnt like the taste of cilantro is genetically inferior to those of us who do?
...live Tilapia comes from Erie Pa
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Farmed?
LOL One of my favorite movies !!
I do not recall anyone saying any such thing!
ALL I did was make a post from Wikipedia and I indicated it was from Wiki.
To Help You understand better let repost the first sentence and try to make it easier to read:
Different people may perceive the taste of coriander
leaves differently. Those who enjoy it
say it has a refreshing, lemony or lime-like
flavor, while those who dislike it have a
strong aversion to its taste and smell,
likening it to that of soap and bugs
I do not see anything in that post indicating any genetic inferioity. do you?
Read it very slow so you will be able to understand.
I hope this post is a help with your reading comprehension.
I hope I have been of help to you.
Thank you for your attention.
BTW. Just for your information I live in South Texas on the family ranch.
I grew up eating cilantro. I like it.
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