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Recall on Romaine Lettuce
By: RubyCat Date: November 21, 2018, 6:32 am
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Good Morning!
I just heard on the radio that there is a huge recall on romaine
lettuce - again. If you're heading out to do the last of the
Thanksgiving shopping, you might want to rethink your choice of
greens. If you already bought romaine lettuce, the CDC
recommends that you throw it away, even if some of it has been
eaten and nobody got sick.
HTML https://www.cdc.gov/ecoli/2018/o157h7-11-18/index.html
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Re: Recall on Romaine Lettuce
By: Luci Date: November 21, 2018, 11:51 am
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[quote author=RubyCat link=topic=825.msg19482#msg19482
date=1542803553]
Good Morning!
I just heard on the radio that there is a huge recall on romaine
lettuce - again. If you're heading out to do the last of the
Thanksgiving shopping, you might want to rethink your choice of
greens. If you already bought romaine lettuce, the CDC
recommends that you throw it away, even if some of it has been
eaten and nobody got sick.
HTML https://www.cdc.gov/ecoli/2018/o157h7-11-18/index.html
[/quote]
Our stores have pulled all Romaine from the shelves since the
first warning came out.
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Re: Recall on Romaine Lettuce
By: STiG Date: November 21, 2018, 12:00 pm
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At least here, technically, it isn't a recall. We're being told
not to eat it but we can't take it back to the store for a
refund. This was done in order to appease the producers
organization, according to the article I read.
I'm not doing my CSA this winter so I'm not getting lettuce and
other greens. So much for salads for a while...
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Re: Recall on Romaine Lettuce
By: Luci Date: November 21, 2018, 1:58 pm
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[quote author=STiG link=topic=825.msg19507#msg19507
date=1542823256]
At least here, technically, it isn't a recall. We're being told
not to eat it but we can't take it back to the store for a
refund. This was done in order to appease the producers
organization, according to the article I read.
I'm not doing my CSA this winter so I'm not getting lettuce and
other greens. So much for salads for a while...
[/quote]
CSA is Community Sourced Agriculture? I never heard of it until
I searched for it.
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Re: Recall on Romaine Lettuce
By: STiG Date: November 21, 2018, 3:01 pm
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Community sourced, community shared, community supported. All
the same thing. You pay so much a month and the farmer provides
you with a basket of vegetables each week that you pick up at
the farm. What you get depends on the season and how good the
crops are doing/have done. Winter, we got root vegetables and
greenhouse greens, mostly.
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Re: Recall on Romaine Lettuce
By: jpcher Date: November 21, 2018, 3:14 pm
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RubyCat -- Thanks for the PSA. When I went shopping today all
the romain lettuce had been removed from the shelves. I picked
up a head of Iceberg and then heard (from an unreliable source)
that ALL lettuce was in danger.
I just looked at the CDC link and didn't find anything saying
all lettuce was in danger, just the romain.
To be safe I'll use spinach, broccoli, cauliflower, radishes,
carrots, cucumber, and tomatoes for my salad tomorrow. No
lettuce.
I kinda think that the stores would be first notified and maybe
the Iceberg would be safe since it was still on the shelves? But
I'm not going to take chances.
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Re: Recall on Romaine Lettuce
By: STiG Date: November 21, 2018, 4:07 pm
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Iceberg would be safe if you peel off the outer leaves. Much
harder for contaminated water to penetrate into the inner
leaves.
All vegetables could potentially be contaminated if the
irrigation water contains bacteria. For vegetables that you can
soak, if you are on city tap water, it has chlorine. If you
leave it soaking in water, turning them to make sure all
surfaces contact the water, for about 20 minutes or so, the
level of chlorine in municipally supplied water should be
enough.
Spinach is probably more of a risk than iceberg, though.
#Post#: 19552--------------------------------------------------
Re: Recall on Romaine Lettuce
By: Rose Red Date: November 21, 2018, 7:43 pm
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One of my coworkers didn't hear about the recall and tried to
order a caesar salad from a mom and pop place. They told her
they're not serving romaine lettuce. I'm glad the recall is
taken seriously.
Caesar salad with light dressing is my go to lunch when I want
to eat healthy. Good thing I haven't been :P.
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