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The US CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) are warning of a serious multi-state E. Coli O157:H7 outbreak that has sickened 32 people, caused 11 hospitalizations, and caused a case of hemolytic uremic syndrome, a type of kidney failure.
CDC is advising consumers, restaurants, and retailers not to eat, serve, or sell any romaine lettuce as it investigates an outbreak of E. coli O157:H7 infections linked to romaine. Read the investigation announcement: https://www.cdc.gov/ecoli/2018/o157h7-11-18/index.html.
[...] Advice to Consumers, Retailers, and Restaurants:
- CDC is advising that U.S. consumers not eat any romaine lettuce, and retailers and restaurants not serve or sell any, until we learn more about the outbreak. This investigation is ongoing and the advice will be updated as more information is available.
- Consumers who have any type of romaine lettuce in their home should not eat it and should throw it away, even if some of it was eaten and no one has gotten sick.
- This advice includes all types or uses of romaine lettuce, such as whole heads of romaine, hearts of romaine, and bags and boxes of precut lettuce and salad mixes that contain romaine, including baby romaine, spring mix, and Caesar salad.
- If you do not know if the lettuce is romaine or whether a salad mix contains romaine, do not eat it and throw it away.
- Restaurants and retailers should not serve or sell any romaine lettuce, including salads and salad mixes containing romaine.
- People with symptoms of an E. coli infection, such as severe stomach cramps, diarrhea (often bloody), and vomiting, and think you might have gotten sick from eating romaine lettuce, should talk to their doctor and report their illness to the health department.
- This investigation is ongoing and CDC will provide more information as it becomes available.
As a precautionary measure, they also advise that if you had any Romaine lettuce, to clean your refrigerator and any surfaces with soapy water and then disinfect with a bleach solution.
They emphasize that it is not possible to sufficiently clean any Romaine lettuce you may have as the bacteria can lodge in micro crevices in the lettuce.
Yes, there are more risky things in one's life to worry about. On the other hand, giving up some salad and avoiding a few days of bleeding diarrhea seems a fair trade-off to me.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 23 2018, @03:02PM (20 children)
Let's compare the safety issues with Romaine Lettuce and assault rifles. Which one is the CDC allowed to research and comment on? Which one do they issue a warning about? Which one gets pulled from stores?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 23 2018, @03:08PM (1 child)
Salad will kill you, brought to you by carls jr.
(Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday November 24 2018, @01:50AM
They and every other shitty burger joint probably use iceberg lettuce rather than romaine, because when you're pinching pennies to maximize profit, whether you are choosing lettuce or certified public accountants, is always go with the 'Berg.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Friday November 23 2018, @03:14PM (6 children)
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 23 2018, @04:06PM (5 children)
Going to church isn't expected to be dangerous either. Neither is going to a concert, or the movies, or a nightclub, or to work or to school.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 23 2018, @05:31PM (2 children)
Do you go to the movies to watch people killing each other? You like that shit, don't you?
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 23 2018, @06:46PM (1 child)
I usually go to watch love stories (mostly between a man and his popcorn).
(Score: 1) by khallow on Saturday November 24 2018, @07:02AM
(Score: 1) by khallow on Saturday November 24 2018, @07:04AM
(Score: 2) by etherscythe on Thursday November 29 2018, @03:37PM
Statistically speaking, getting in your car and driving somewhere is likely to be the most dangerous thing you do all day. So it does inherently bear some risk of danger.
"Fake News: anything reported outside of my own personally chosen echo chamber"
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 23 2018, @03:33PM (1 child)
Never seen assault rifles sold as a vegetable.... or recipes to properly prepare them.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 23 2018, @03:40PM
Sold as vegetables? no...
Sold to vegetables ? Oh yes.....
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 23 2018, @04:11PM (3 children)
Romaine lettuce doesn't kill salads! People kill salads!
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 23 2018, @04:22PM (2 children)
Dressing kills salads.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 23 2018, @05:32PM (1 child)
I like my salads the same as my women. Lean and naked.
(Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday November 24 2018, @01:46AM
Dressings are a lose-lose situation. If they taste good, then they are too fat. If they are healthy, then they are too salty. And yet, you always end up needing one or the other when you have nothing else.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Sulla on Friday November 23 2018, @05:41PM (1 child)
What is your defintion of assault rifle? The number of deaths in 2017 by rifles ("assault" variety included) was 403. To put in perspective blunt objects were 467, hands/feet/etc were 696, knives 1591, and handguns 7032. Foodborne illness wiki says there were 5k deaths in 1999 down to 3k in 2012. If we assume linear that would put foodborne illness above rifle deaths.
Ceterum censeo Sinae esse delendam
(Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 23 2018, @06:51PM
All of those numbers are too high. The fact that you think it's clever to counter four romaine lettuce deaths with thousands attributed to other means shows you're in denial.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 24 2018, @01:23AM
Which is under the sphere of responsibility of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention -- e. coli, or rifles? (answer: rifles are not a disease)
They got slapped down for doing "studies" for issues that are not within their purview.
(Score: 2) by krishnoid on Saturday November 24 2018, @09:40AM (1 child)
The assault rifles, obviously. I couldn't imagine what the Commission on Defense Carbines would have to do with produce.
(Score: 1) by nitehawk214 on Saturday November 24 2018, @08:26PM
What about a salad shooter?
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