Re: -MELISSA__ E. Coli Outbreak Traced to Bag

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California, Connecticut, Idaho, Indiana, Kentucky, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, New Mexico, Nevada, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Utah, Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin and Wyoming, ). By STEVE OSUNSAMI

Sept. 15, 2006 — It doesn't matter what brand of spinach. It doesn't matter how long it's been sitting in the refrigerator. If it comes in bag, the Food and Drug Administration is strongly encouraging consumers, from coast to coast, to throw it out.

Federal officials blame the bagged, grocery store spinach for what has now turned into a massive E.Coli outbreak, responsible for hospitalizing residents in at least 20 states. (So far, according the U.S. Centers for Disease Control: California, Connecticut, Idaho, Indiana, Kentucky, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, New Mexico, Nevada, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Utah, Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin and Wyoming, ). One person has died, a 77-year old woman in Wisconsin. Dozens of people have fallen seriously ill. There have been at least 14 cases of kidney failure.

Natural Selection Foods, which produces packaged products under the label "Earthbound Farm Organic" has announced a voluntary recall for spinach products with sell by dates August 17 through October 21. Earthbound Farm is the nation's grower of organic produce. It is in 74 percent of grocery stores nationwide and last reported to have $450 million in revenue.

Dr. Acheson, with the Center for Food and Safety and Applied Nutrition says, "the cases are increasing by the day."

"We may be at the peak and we may not. I don't know," he says. "It is all preliminary data."

The FDA has identified the strain of E. coli as O151:H7, and a typical infection takes a few days to develop and nearly two weeks to pass. It causes severe abdominal cramping and bloody diarrhea. In some cases, it can be fatal.

Dr. Donnenberg heads the Division of Infectious Diseases at the University of land, and says he wouldn't eat any packaged spinach of any kind, and wouldn't advise anyone else to do so either.

"This is an unusual thing," he says. "By now, investigators would normally be able to tell us what lot the spinach came from or what the packaging looked like. At this point, they've usually been able to take cultures of samples that were still sitting somewhere in the victim's home."

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/story?id=2449681 & page=1

do you know which states?melissa

"When life's problems seem overwhelming, look around and see what other people are coping with. You may consider yourself fortunate."

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Thanks Helen I did not record the states affected, it is terrible, safe food? Huh!!!!!

Anne

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NO!!! It will not wash off... Why chance it for a dollar bag of greens???

It is that uncertainty that prompted the warning about bagged salads: because the method of contamination in that October 2005 outbreak has not been pinned down, the potential for further illness from the same source cannot be eliminated. Rinsing "ready to eat" salads at home may not be an effective countermeasure if E. coli has managed to work itself into the leaves rather than sitting upon them, where it can be washed off. If the pathogen got into lettuce leaves via being pulled up through the plant's roots, all the washing in the world will not make lettuce safe to eat.

http://www.snopes.com/food/warnings/salad.asp

i don't know, if you rinse it would it make a difference.

you would have to cook it for so long just to get rid of it

"When life's problems seem overwhelming, look around and see what other people are coping with. You may consider yourself fortunate."

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normally it is, but since 2004 it has started showing up in bagged salad greens... The FDA has put a warning out then about not advising people to use bagged greens until they can figure this out... http://www.snopes.com/food/warnings/salad.asp

http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_dole_salad_mix.htm

thank you

i hope they get it all

i thought e coli thing was a meat thing

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thank you

i hope they get it all

i thought e coli thing was a meat thing

California, Connecticut, Idaho, Indiana, Kentucky, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, New Mexico, Nevada, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Utah, Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin and Wyoming, ). By STEVE OSUNSAMI

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i don't know, if you rinse it would it make a difference.

you would have to cook it for so long just to get rid of it

Thanks Helen I did not record the states affected, it is terrible, safe food? Huh!!!!!

Anne

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i know

sorry didn't mean to act dumb about it,

i think i am just used to seeing e coli linked with meat, not anything else

my nephew had gotten samenilla poisening(from raw eggs) and they had no idea what he had he was 7 and they were going to go thru exploritory surgery for that, now they think he can't get it again. I don't know if i would chance that either

melissa

NO!!! It will not wash off... Why chance it for a dollar bag of greens???

It is that uncertainty that prompted the warning about bagged salads: because the method of contamination in that October 2005 outbreak has not been pinned down, the potential for further illness from the same source cannot be eliminated. Rinsing "ready to eat" salads at home may not be an effective countermeasure if E. coli has managed to work itself into the leaves rather than sitting upon them, where it can be washed off. If the pathogen got into lettuce leaves via being pulled up through the plant's roots, all the washing in the world will not make lettuce safe to eat.

http://www.snopes.com/food/warnings/salad.asp

i don't know, if you rinse it would it make a difference.

you would have to cook it for so long just to get rid of it

"When life's problems seem overwhelming, look around and see what other people are coping with. You may consider yourself fortunate."

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the last two bags of greens we got we did't even open so maybe lucky on that

part.

i hope they figure it out fast, ilove my veggies

melissa

normally it is, but since 2004 it has started showing up in bagged salad

greens... The FDA has put a warning out then about not advising people to

use bagged greens until they can figure this out...

http://www.snopes.com/food/warnings/salad.asp

http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_dole_salad_mix.htm

thank you

i hope they get it all

i thought e coli thing was a meat thing

" When life's problems seem overwhelming,

look around and see what other people are coping with.

You may consider yourself fortunate. "

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melissa throw away i wouldnt take a chance our immune systems are low this could really hurt us. i hope i said this right. dont think suside i know i spelt that wrong you have to much to live for sure i could think that way having a brother that dosent want me around but thats his problem i have to much to live for even if its just living for me josieGranada Family <robert_g54463@...> wrote: i don't know, if you rinse it would it make a difference. you would have to cook it for so long just to get rid of it Thanks Helen I did not record the states affected, it is terrible, safe food? Huh!!!!! Anne .

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We have it now here in Ohio. So far I think 1 person has died. Sueacarpe6119@... wrote: Thanks Helen I did not record the states affected, it is terrible, safe food? Huh!!!!! Anne For a REALLY HOT time check out http://www.peternoone.com and http://www.mikesmith1964.com

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oh, i didn't buy any, i was just thinking that if you could wash it would it

go away.

apparently not

melissa

melissa

throw away i wouldnt take a chance our immune systems are low this could

really hurt us. i hope i said this right. dont think suside i know i spelt

that wrong you have to much to live for sure i could think that way having

a brother that dosent want me around but thats his problem i have to much

to live for even if its just living for me josie

Granada Family <robert_g54463@...> wrote:

i don't know, if you rinse it would it make a difference.

you would have to cook it for so long just to get rid of it

Thanks Helen I did not record the states affected, it is terrible, safe

food? Huh!!!!!

Anne

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