Gingergrrl
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My sister just e-mailed me this link that ALL Romaine lettuce is currently NOT safe to eat and potentially contaminated with E. Coli. I have eaten Romaine lettuce several times this week from a pre-packaged bag of lettuce from Whole Foods and also in a salad from a restaurant .
This is so annoying and scary and I wanted to post this before anyone else from PR eats it and so you can warn your friends and family (only two days before Thanksgiving in the US)! The E. Coli is in Romaine lettuce in Canada as well.
Here is the link and a few quotes:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nati...ory.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.a276a9809e8c
This is so annoying and scary and I wanted to post this before anyone else from PR eats it and so you can warn your friends and family (only two days before Thanksgiving in the US)! The E. Coli is in Romaine lettuce in Canada as well.
Here is the link and a few quotes:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nati...ory.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.a276a9809e8c
Romaine lettuce is unsafe to eat in any form, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Tuesday in a food safety alert in response to a new outbreak of illnesses caused by a particularly dangerous type of E. coli bacteria.
CDC told consumers to throw away any romaine lettuce they may already have purchased. Restaurants should not serve it, stores should not sell it, and people should not buy it, no matter where or when the lettuce was grown. It doesn’t matter if it is chopped, whole head or part of a mix.
The CDC reported that 32 people in 11 states have become sick from eating contaminated romaine. Of those, 13 have been hospitalized, with one patient suffering from a form of kidney failure. The Public Health Agency of Canada has reported that 18 people have been infected with the same strain of E. coli. in Ontario and Quebec.
California has the highest number of reported illnesses, with 10, followed by Michigan with seven, New Jersey with three, Illinois, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and New York with two each, and the remainder in Connecticut, Maryland, Ohio and Wisconsin.
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