CDC Food Safety Alert: E. Coli Outbreak Linked to Romaine Lettuce
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Re: CDC Food Safety Alert: E. Coli Outbreak Linked to Romaine Lettuce
#2It seems like no one learned anything after the last one 5 months ago: https://www.cdc.gov/ecoli/2018/o157h7-04-18/index.html
IIRC the first outbreak was from farmers in Yuma watering their fields with water that had been contaminated by runoff from a large cattle farm upstream.
(The article says the two aren't related, but it seems like more than a coincidence unless romaine lettuce is more succeptible to contracting and retaining e. coli somehow..)
Re: CDC Food Safety Alert: E. Coli Outbreak Linked to Romaine Lettuce
#3It seems like no one learned anything after the last one 5 months ago: https://www.cdc.gov/ecoli/2018/o157h7-04-18/index.html IIRC the first outbreak was from farmers in Yuma watering their fields with water that had been contaminated by runoff from a large cattle farm upstream. (The article says the two aren't related, but it seems like more than a coincidence unless romaine lettuce is more succeptible to contractin…
Isn't it more susceptible? The structure of Romaine is such that contaminants can fairly easily get "inside", but are not easily washed away.
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#4Tens of millions of people shouldn't eat Romaine lettuce because 30 people got sick in October?
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#5Its always the lettuce!
Re: CDC Food Safety Alert: E. Coli Outbreak Linked to Romaine Lettuce
#6Tens of millions of people shouldn't eat Romaine lettuce because 30 people got sick in October?
Well you can if you want
Re: CDC Food Safety Alert: E. Coli Outbreak Linked to Romaine Lettuce
#7Its always the lettuce!
Lettuce alone!
Re: CDC Food Safety Alert: E. Coli Outbreak Linked to Romaine Lettuce
#8The other day, my wife introduced me to yet another difference between Chinese cuisine and US cuisine: She cooked the Romaine lettuce she got from her coworker. She just cooked it like you'd cook Bok Choy. It was quite good!
My wife also rinses everything we get from the store. No one is to be trusted with your family's food. Absolutely everything is rinsed, including things most Americans would really rather not. One day, I had to work a bit to convince her to not rinse the steel cut oats!
Re: CDC Food Safety Alert: E. Coli Outbreak Linked to Romaine Lettuce
#9It seems like no one learned anything after the last one 5 months ago: https://www.cdc.gov/ecoli/2018/o157h7-04-18/index.html IIRC the first outbreak was from farmers in Yuma watering their fields with water that had been contaminated by runoff from a large cattle farm upstream. (The article says the two aren't related, but it seems like more than a coincidence unless romaine lettuce is more succeptible to contractin…
The way the leaves are bunched together makes it hard to clean. And secondly it is not cooked before eating.
Re: CDC Food Safety Alert: E. Coli Outbreak Linked to Romaine Lettuce
#10It seems like no one learned anything after the last one 5 months ago: https://www.cdc.gov/ecoli/2018/o157h7-04-18/index.html IIRC the first outbreak was from farmers in Yuma watering their fields with water that had been contaminated by runoff from a large cattle farm upstream. (The article says the two aren't related, but it seems like more than a coincidence unless romaine lettuce is more succeptible to contractin…
The way the leaves are bunched together makes it hard to clean. And secondly it is not cooked before eating.
That's a property of most (all?) lettuces, but here we are with two romaine-related instances in 5 months.