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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: 1) by khallow on Monday November 26 2018, @06:07PM (5 children)
It's already done in the usual market way. Let's not put perverse incentives in to grow oranges in Montana.
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Tuesday November 27 2018, @12:10AM (4 children)
If people in Montana want oranges in their local stores, I damn well want them to pay more for them there than I have to in a Central Florida grocery surrounded by massive commercial orange groves. That is not what happens today, and it is a perversity and failure of the market that we have, which is far from free.
Україна досі не є частиною Росії Слава Україні🌻 https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2023/06/24/7408365/
(Score: 1) by khallow on Tuesday November 27 2018, @12:23AM (3 children)
Why in the world should your desires matter? This is the nice thing about markets. They work without introducing third parties to tell us what the cost and value of things should be.
And this result is perverse/failure because?
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Tuesday November 27 2018, @03:35AM (2 children)
Because it results in the mass long distance shipment of foods all over the globe, consumption of energy labor and all manner of unnecessary resources to feed an economy instead of feeding people, koyaanisqatsi.
Україна досі не є частиною Росії Слава Україні🌻 https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2023/06/24/7408365/
(Score: 1) by khallow on Tuesday November 27 2018, @07:16AM (1 child)
And that is bad why? Energy is cheap while growing oranges in Montana is not. And since has food been an "unnecessary resource"?
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Tuesday November 27 2018, @12:26PM
Fossil fuel based energy is borrowing from the future, a potentially unpayable debt.
If growing oranges in Montana isn't economically viable, that's fine - let them cost what they cost to ship there, not some homogenized nationwide rate that balances profit and loss across the continental market.
Since the 1970s when global production of fruits and vegetables filled US and European markets with year-round availability of seasonal foods.
Україна досі не є частиною Росії Слава Україні🌻 https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2023/06/24/7408365/