Posted on 11/22/2019 10:43:53 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
An E. coli outbreak led to a recall covering 22 states and 97,272 pounds of ready-to-eat salad sold at Domino's Pizza and a list of grocers that includes Walmart, Target, Aldi, Albertsons and Giant Eagle.
The lettuce is the potential E. coli carrier in the salads made by New Jersey company Missa Bay, all of which are listed here.
Missa Bay sold them to food distributors in Pennsylvania, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, Alabama, Connecticut, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Virginia and Wisconsin.
Distributors sold them to retailers and they hit the shelves as the store brands of Target, Aldi, Walmart, Sam's Club, Albertsons-Safeway-Vons, Giant Eagle and as side salads by Domino's Pizza.
The latest use by date on the recalled salads is Nov. 1, so all should be long gone from shelves. But the concern is some salads could still be in freezers or refrigerators. They should be thrown out or returned for a refund.
A Thursday afternoon email from Aldi said, "The two products Aldi sold that were included in this recall, Little Salad Bar Chicken Caesar Salad and Little Salad Bar Santa Fe Style Salad, had been removed from our shelves already and they are past their use-by dates. All of the products currently on our shelves are safe to eat."
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Yep. You’re not the only one! If you have a low immunity system like I do you get pretty paranoid!
I don’t know where you see that, in the Yuma area I see lots of porta-potties with handwash stations attached to the back of harvest crew buses.
Not that I’ve gone inside, mind you...
Dean?
Ha. I have a low platelet count and I’m high risk for more staph infections. Ain’t going there again after what all the antibiotics did to my innards the last two times.
That was their habit in Mexico, so I guess they do it here, also, even though America actually has decent sanitary facilities. They should really locate port-a-potties in the fields if they use migrant labor, in order to cut down on those incidents.
Is Bactrim one of those high-dose probiotics that you can use to crowd out bad bacteria in your gut, or is it an antibiotic?
It is two antibiotics in one pill.
I remember the news from a few years ago about the peanut products executive who knowingly allowed tainted peanut products to be distributed into his marketing area. I personally believe that man should have been executed.
Yikes! Thanks for the warning.
Read your article. I love how the clown does not bother to tell how to rid the produce of bacteria. He goes on instead about better farm practices. As if the consumer can do anything about that!
No, washing will not remove the bacteria, but bleach will.
Cool.
Good advice. Thanks!
That’s terrible but thankfully, you recovered :)
Even if they use the outhouses, they may still be going back to picking in the field without having washed their hands.
the way activated charcoal works is it has a ton of nooks and crannies in the crystals that trap the poisons so that it doesn’t absorb out through the digestive tract to poison the body- then you eliminate it naturally-
in the hospital they pump activated charcoal into you, then let it set a bit then pump out your stomach- Yuck!
But having activated charcoal on hand is always a good idea- for emergencies- and even just for peace of mind if you suspect you might have eaten something that might have been bad- even if it wasn’t bad, the charcoal will do no harm- so better safe than sorry-
I will not order a salad in a restaurant because I do not trust that the produce has been properly cleaned. That goes for fruit salads, also.
True. In Mexico, they do use toilet paper in their houses, but then put it in trash cans, because their sewer systems apparently cannot handle the TP. It’s similar to India, where the tradition is to “wash” with the left hand, eat with the right, because their sewer systems cannot handle TP.
NOTE: That’s not true for all Mexican sanitary systems. At the hotel where I stayed in La Paz, Baja California Sur, in 1991, the system took TP just fine.
These illegals working in the fields are probably peeing in the fields also not only does it get on the produce it gets into the soil!!!
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