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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
#12Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Interestingly enough, bean sprouts are eaten raw, are not (thoroughly) cleaned before eating, and must be, by definition, held at an unsafe temperature to sprout.
They also cause a bunch of foodborne illness. I think it's a pretty clear connection.
Re: CDC Food Safety Alert: E. Coli Outbreak Linked to Romaine Lettuce
#13If people are wondering why vegetables can be infected with something like E. Coli, the reason is that animal waste is often used as fertilizer, or animals live near the crop's water supply and then gets sprayed all over the vegetable crops.
Re: CDC Food Safety Alert: E. Coli Outbreak Linked to Romaine Lettuce
#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's a property of most (all?) lettuces, but here we are with two romaine-related instances in 5 months.
Interestingly enough, bean sprouts are eaten raw, are not (thoroughly) cleaned before eating, and must be, by definition, held at an unsafe temperature to sprout. They also cause a bunch of foodborne illness. I think it's a pretty clear connection.
I blanch bean sprouts before freezing them for storage and then toss them in something I’m frying or boiling. Seems to work for me.
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#15The 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. On…
I always cut and rinse lettuce, is that uncommon? Sounds interesting. I need to try stir frying romaine.
Re: CDC Food Safety Alert: E. Coli Outbreak Linked to Romaine Lettuce
#16If people are wondering why vegetables can be infected with something like E. Coli, the reason is that animal waste is often used as fertilizer, or animals live near the crop's water supply and then gets sprayed all over the vegetable crops.
It's not just animal waste. http://time.com/3974244/cilantro-feces/
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#17Planet Money just did an episode on this issue which ended with the opinion that it was highly likely to happen again, guess they were right.
https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2018/08/24/641739640/epis...
Re: CDC Food Safety Alert: E. Coli Outbreak Linked to Romaine Lettuce
#18The 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. On…
Many restaurants in China serve cooked lettuce as a side, I found it quite odd at first but it's really tasty and with some soy sauce easy to eat by itself.
Cooking lettuce in the western world will probably raise a few eyebrows.
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#19The 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. On…
I always cut and rinse lettuce, is that uncommon? Sounds interesting. I need to try stir frying romaine.
You can't rinse off what's physically inside the plant.
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#20It 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…
Consumer Reports had a more thorough article than the short write up by the CDC. I find it frustrating the CDC blanket points the fjnger at lettuce without disclosing root cause. People confuse the fact that plants are not the source, animal feces is (most likely in this case). Just as s it was last time...
https://www.consumerreports.org/food-safety/what-growers-are...