Bagged Lettuce E Coli warning:10-8-06 New Warning - This time it is lettuce

[dmcowen674]

Originally posted by: aidanjm
I tried to draw your attention to the dangers of lettuce (and other assorted salad vegatables of low nutritional value) on this very forum over a year ago... you all laughed at me :|

now who's laughing?

What does low nutritional value have to do with E Coli???

 

[aidanjm]

Originally posted by: dmcowen674

Originally posted by: aidanjm
I tried to draw your attention to the dangers of lettuce (and other assorted salad vegatables of low nutritional value) on this very forum over a year ago... you all laughed at me :|

now who's laughing?

What does low nutritional value have to do with E Coli???

nothing, but eating lettuce is a waste of time even without the e. coli, because it's mostly water, with almost no vitamins or minerals. Add in the risks from bacteria, and it's a no brainer!

 

[BoomerD]

Originally posted by: winr

Originally posted by: alchemize
"The company said the manufacturing codes turned over to health officials from packages of spinach that had infected patients all were from non-organic spinach."

That's good to hear - I would hate to see organic foods take a step back...

I would guess that the organic farmers have different irrigation methods, probably keeps the human poopie off the spinach.

Ooo....tell me they dont use Human poopie on spinach...please....

I love spinach but Human poopie ???

I suspect that unless the regs have been relaxed to allow the use of what is euphamisticly referred to as "bio-solids" on food crops, then any "human poopie" comes from the farmworker who craps in the field. IME, pretty common thing. While most farmers/farm labor contractors provide porta-johns for the crews, usually there is not enough to service the size of the crew, nor are they cleaned frequently enough to keep them even moderately sanitary...so, you crap in the field because it's cleaner than the crapper...