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Feces explosion in Mexican cilantro fields sparks partial import ban
national.suntimes.com ^ | Posted: 07/27/2015, 12:35pm | By Chad Merda

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.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; Mexico; US: California
KEYWORDS: actoflove; cilantro; food; foodcontamination; mexicanfood; tacobell
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To: Red Badger

The beginning of the title made me think this was about Congress. Never mind.


81 posted on 07/27/2015 2:00:46 PM PDT by Pajamajan ( Pray for our nation. Thank the Lord for everything you have. Don't wait. Do it today.)
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To: Red Badger

Exactly. Who needs it? Just ban the crap. If someone really wants the taste of cilantro in his burrito, he should just squirt a little Dawn dishwashing detergent into it! (j/k)

No, this is just more disgusting information about what Messycans do to our food. It’s not just cilantro. You think your Mexican tomatoes are clean? Look... they hate us. Face it. Ninety percent of the world hates us and a lot of this stuff is being done deliberately in the fields, and not just by hateful or careless individuals. More reason to build that wall. High, wide and deep. Cut off the flow of everything. See who suffers first - and most - and who will beg most pitifully for commerce to resume and promise absolutely to put an end to this crap. Who knows? The price of tequila might even return to its rightful place.


82 posted on 07/27/2015 2:04:12 PM PDT by LibWhacker
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To: Pontiac
Marko413 ~ Does this count as chemical warfare?

Pontiac ~ Biological warfare.

Bowelogical warfare...

83 posted on 07/27/2015 2:05:13 PM PDT by null and void (If the government can't protect the Marines, how can we expect it to protect us?)
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To: beaversmom

http://www.abc.net.au/health/talkinghealth/factbuster/stories/2012/02/02/3407024.htm


84 posted on 07/27/2015 2:05:34 PM PDT by Red Badger (Man builds a ship in a bottle. God builds a universe in the palm of His hand.............)
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To: Red Badger

Thanks for link. I used to use it to clean, but got really bad eczema on my hands from it so had to stop. Should have worn gloves, I guess.


85 posted on 07/27/2015 2:07:27 PM PDT by beaversmom
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To: Red Badger

Well it IS a TURD world nation!


86 posted on 07/27/2015 2:10:06 PM PDT by nomad
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To: Red Badger
The move comes after health officials found human feces and toilet paper in growing fields,

Cilantro tastes like it too.

87 posted on 07/27/2015 2:14:14 PM PDT by Mike Darancette (CA the sanctuary state for stupid.)
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To: elhombrelibre

Well Latin America does tend to be full of sh!t.


88 posted on 07/27/2015 2:14:36 PM PDT by nomad
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To: null and void

LOL

Very good


89 posted on 07/27/2015 2:14:52 PM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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To: Red Badger

No kidding. Apparently cilantro is love/hate herb.
Put me in the hate column. Soap taste .


90 posted on 07/27/2015 2:23:49 PM PDT by Vinnie
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To: Red Badger

Ought to be a popular taste addition in SF!


91 posted on 07/27/2015 2:30:45 PM PDT by doorgunner69
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To: Red Badger

I will not eat Mexican Produce period!!! Only eat American grown Produce!!!


92 posted on 07/27/2015 2:33:32 PM PDT by tallyhoe
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To: cripplecreek

LOL! We wish this cilantro tasted like dish detergent.

I like cilantro but I do know people who say it tastes soapy.


93 posted on 07/27/2015 2:34:14 PM PDT by Let's Roll (Before it can get any better it has to stop getting worse - vote 4 most conservative available)
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To: null and void

“they don’t expect their cilantro supply to be impacted by the ban.”

Impacted is definitely not the problem here. LOL


94 posted on 07/27/2015 2:37:27 PM PDT by ladyjane
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To: Let's Roll

LOL! We wish this cilantro tasted like dish detergent.

I like cilantro but I do know people who say it tastes soapy.

Sounds like it taste like Sh**!


95 posted on 07/27/2015 2:37:57 PM PDT by tallyhoe
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To: Red Badger

Totally agree


96 posted on 07/27/2015 2:38:12 PM PDT by NorthstarMom (God says debt is a curse and children are a blessing, yet we apply for loans and prevent pregnancy.)
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To: b4its2late

“I don’t even know what cilantro is.”.......

Its that sprinkled on green “crap” that the Mexicans sprinkle on top of many of their foods. (Sorry for the comparison to “crap”, the Mexican brand comes only in green)


97 posted on 07/27/2015 2:40:42 PM PDT by DaveA37
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To: Iron Munro
Take a look around the big veggie fields and fruit orchards here in the USA where the illegals are picking the crops.

The old caution concerning eating fresh veggies or drinking the water when South of the Border.
It's been brought up here.

My brother was a agricultural missionary in a S. American country some years ago.
One of the first things he did was get milk pails w/ a hood covering about half the opening. Designed to help prevent the cows from peeing in the milk. Strange tasting milk. Really.

98 posted on 07/27/2015 2:42:45 PM PDT by Vinnie
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To: Jane Long

Was the author’s name of this article really Chad Mierda?

;^)


99 posted on 07/27/2015 2:44:47 PM PDT by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam.")
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To: Red Badger

Cilantro has a soapy taste and for many people it causes gas.

Never got really excited about it.


100 posted on 07/27/2015 2:45:30 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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