Um, eek!

[rowangolightly]

Do you eat salad out of a bag?


This was sent to be via Judy; I checked this out on Snopes and it is true.

NBC Dateline did a documentary on cut-up lettuce and spinach packaged in plastic
bags. They showed whole process and talked about how the Ecoli bacteria is now showing
up in the salad mix in bags. They don't know yet how the Ecoli got in, but
they do know that deaths and serious sicknesses are occurring in many
states.

One woman told about how her child was near death from the lettuce and
was sick for a long time. They warned us not to buy any bag salads until
they find out from the investigation what is causing this contamination.

The Dole Company has recalled their bags. See the link below.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12536902/
<http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12536902/>

Comments

[rowangolightly.livejournal.com]

Ye gods!

And everybody has kept this thing relatively quiet, I mean, note the comment above about when this story actually first broke loose as opposed to when these cases actually transpired!

Pisses me right off, it does...

[typsygypsy.livejournal.com]

I read the other comment... Which kinda made me curious. Because it was only last week or the week before when Carol made a salad from the Dole bag and asked us all if we wanted salad- we'd eaten and declined. She was sick the next day, so this is either a new case or she was sick from something else. But if Dole was shoddy with their cleaning once, they certainly could be again...