Seattle Forrest

https://www.msn.com/en-us/foodanddri...-us/ar-AAwntsM

A 2013 analysis by CDC of food poisoning cases between 1998 and 2008 found that leafy vegetables — salads and the like — caused almost a quarter of all food poisonings. That was more than any other food product, including dairy and poultry. Leafy vegetables were also the second most common cause of food poisoning-related hospitalizations.

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Michele Jay-Russell, a food safety researcher at the University of California Davis who has investigated salad-related poisoning outbreaks in the past, said the raw vegetables that are the most common culprits are basically all salad greens, but especially the chopped and bagged kind. “We really haven’t seen kale and some of the other greens [with contamination] problems, at least not yet. And romaine is one of the most common lettuce products that are used in salads.”

The article goes on to talk about why, if you're interested.

Carbonfiberboy 

Yep. A friend of ours was a victim of the e-coli spinach thing many years ago. Almost killed her, destroyed her health permanently. She bought and ate a whole bag of spinach. We get local organic romaine and wash it before eating.

TimothyH

I believe it and have stopped eating fresh spinach after getting food poisoning from Sweet Tomatoes restaurant.

bruce19

Buying veggies in plastic baggies is one of those pet peeves of mine. We have a local food co-op and lots of farm stands in the area. That's where I buy my food. No plastic involved.

wolfchild

It's getting more risky to eat fresh salads, fruits and vegetables than it is meat, dairy and eggs...I put a couple of raw egg yolks into my smoothie everyday, I know it's risky but I still do it.

stacysaul

Scary stuff.

awesomeame

I've gotten food poisoning the past two times buying pre-prepared foods from out local grocery store. Never again!!!

Matt

canklecat

I gave up most green leafy veggies long ago for this reason. There isn't much nutrition in it anyway. Mostly I miss the texture and flavor. But it's harder to wash and as the research indicates the contamination is drawn inside the leaves so washing doesn't really help.

I mostly stick with stuff that's easier to wash -- tomatoes, carrots, etc.

A friend treated me to some bags of fancy salad ingredients recently, along with recipes for combining everything. I ate it, enjoyed it, didn't get sick, but probably wouldn't buy it myself.

I do miss living at my former rural home with enough land for a garden. One of the pleasures is just walking through the garden and grazing.

Myspokeisabroke

That's old data from a weak source. UC Davis is a Joke. I eat all I can from bags. Yummy !!

OldTryGuy

TRUE DAT

Hondo Gravel

Myspokeisabroke

It'll buff out.

The next level

Definitely! Whatever you do, do not eat veggies!

OldTryGuy

Did you WAVE to the pilot ???

Hondo Gravel

Rollfast

That settles it, I'll eat Trix.

And I've SEEN a crop duster crash.

Seattle Forrest

Cool strawman, bro!

TimothyH

My daughter's friend just got sick from bagged Romain lettuce. It was confirmed E. coli 0157:H7 by a doctor.

My daughter ate it and got sick too but didn't go to the doctor.

It has 48 to 72 hour incubation. They ate it Thursday and were puking every half hour Saturday night into Sunday. Monday they are both mostly better.


-Tim-

BonkonFleet

I put bagged spinach in my shake every single day? How much longer would you guys say I have?

Rollfast

Hello?

HELLO?

Gentlemen, can we rebuild him?

KraneXL

I eat the ones that say ready to eat, triple washed. Should I wash it regardless? I guess perhaps now I will.The problem with that logic is that you never know when or where food poisoning will occur.

Rollfast

So far my own cooking hasn't killed me...I'll research further.

Seattle Forrest

Five dead, nearly 200 sick in E. coli outbreak from lettuce. And investigators are stumped.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced the tally Friday, more than two months after the first illnesses occurred in mid-March. Although investigators have determined that the E. coli came from contaminated romaine lettuce grown in Arizona's Yuma region near the border with Southern California, the Food and Drug Administration has not been able to link the outbreak to one farm, processor or distributor, according to Scott Gottlieb, the agency's commissioner, and Stephen Ostroff, the deputy commissioner for foods and veterinary medicine, in an update Thursday.

With the tainted vegetables now off the shelves and the growing season over, the FDA may never crack the case, frustrating consumer advocates who have called on the agency to issue rules that would speed up future investigations of food-borne illnesses, The Washington Post's Caitlin Dewey reported.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...=.e5af8fdd4d50

Seattle Forrest

Broccoli, peas, string beans, asparagus, etc, are healthy greens that aren't nearly as dangerous.

The link in the OP explains how our methods of farming and distributing on an intensive scale give lettuce an unusually high potential of spreading disease.

bikebreak

If they wash off 99% of the bacteria, the 1% remaining can still reproduce and be a threat
same deal with hand sanitizers that kill 99.99% of pathogens. It's that .01% that it really nasty and hard to kill