Stop Eating Bagged Spinach Now!

[monsoon]

Looks like it is green onions at Taco Bell now.

[suburban george3]

Looks like it is green onions at Taco Bell now.

[runawayjim]

R we sure it's the green onions?? Taco Bells are always kinda nasty, it seems like a 50/50 chance for at least an upset stomach if you eat there!!

[nowensone]

R we sure it's the green onions?? Taco Bells are always kinda nasty, it seems like a 50/50 chance for at least an upset stomach if you eat there!!

[Miesian Corners]

Is it safe to eat ANYWHERE?

[DigitalSky]

My roommate got a mexican pizza from Taco Bell tonight, I mentioned to him that without the green onions the pizza looks naked.

[dgreco]

My roommate got a mexican pizza from Taco Bell tonight, I mentioned to him that without the green onions the pizza looks naked.

[monsoon]

what is the recent craze about ecole in all this food?

[nowensone]

Isn't ecoli one of those thing that humans have been dealing with ever since, well, forever? Makes you wonder if it is dangerous simply because we aren't accustomed to it, kind of like drinking the water in Mexico doesn't bother the locals...

[monsoon]

Isn't ecoli one of those thing that humans have been dealing with ever since, well, forever? Makes you wonder if it is dangerous simply because we aren't accustomed to it, kind of like drinking the water in Mexico doesn't bother the locals...

[Recchia]

The other problem is that ecoli is getting more resistant to treatment because people abuse antibiotics in this country and drug resistant ecoli is now quite common.

[nowensone]

Breaking news (I guess), another E-coli outbreak at a single Taco John's in Iowa, 14 of which required hospitalization, no minor case. Has this always been news, or is there something not so coincidental about the recent numbers across the country? Hard to say from a single source anymore..

[runawayjim]

the spinach thing was found to be coming from the ground, not anything that was sprayed on them, which is why they changed the warning to all spinach and not just bagged spinach.

i don't know much about the taco bell thing...

[dgreco]

Breaking news (I guess), another E-coli outbreak at a single Taco John's in Iowa, 14 of which required hospitalization, no minor case. Has this always been news, or is there something not so coincidental about the recent numbers across the country? Hard to say from a single source anymore..

[monsoon]

the spinach thing was found to be coming from the ground, not anything that was sprayed on them, which is why they changed the warning to all spinach and not just bagged spinach.

i don't know much about the taco bell thing...

[runawayjim]

No that is not the case. From this report from the FDA on Oct 12th.

FDA and the State of California announced today that test results from the field investigation of the outbreak of E.coli O157:H7 in spinach are positive for E.coli O157:H7. Samples of cattle feces on one of the implicated ranches tested positive based on matching genetic fingerprints for the same strain of E. coli that sickened 199 people.

[monsoon]

You said nothing was sprayed on the spinach and suggested this was just part of the normal dangers of growing vegetables as the ground contains e-coli. The investigations indicated the spinich was contaminated by washing the spinach with water that had been contaminated by these feces. I don't know about you, but I don't think it is normal operating procedure to use such water when cleaning produce whether it is bagged or not.