This article concerns the Canadian recall. The recall is now expanded to include the United States. Check your bagged salad, folks.
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency is warning the public to avoid consuming Dole’s Hearts Delight lettuce salad because of fears of E. coli contamination.
The agency warned that the salad, which is a ready-to-eat blend of romaine, green leaf and butter lettuce hearts, may not look or taste spoilt even if it is, report Canadian websites such as canada.com.
The salad is produced in the United States and sold in 227-gram packages. The packages have a “best if used by” date of Sept. 19, 2007, a lot code of A24924B and a UPC of 0 71430 01038 9.
Dole Consumer Center: 800-356-3111.
The lettuce was grown in California, Colorado and Ohio. Of course, we all know that only food from China is really dangerous. TV Talking Heads tell us so.
what i find REALLY, interesting,
Is that you stick salad in a bag, and dont expect it to GROW old and die.
Unless they inserted an inert gas in there, the stuff is going to ROT, 1 way or another…PERIOD.
then the humorous side comes to play…
YOU PAY HOW MUCH FOR LETTUCE??
For what you paid you could buy ALL the ingredients and make 3-4 times as much.
I guess Dole won’t be tossing my salad.
Ok – This poor guy dies from botulism poisoning, ate some of the product that had been recalled for botulism contamination, however, they are not related. Does anyone have anymore information about this?
Most Curious
Actually, it’s only liberal/demoncrats that are dangerous and they seem to be manufactured only in the United States.
Goes to show you, spraying anything with human and pig feces isn’t very smart. Especially vegetable fields :/.
The key lesson here kids is to:
A. Buy individual salad ingredients separately, and mix them yourself,
B. Say screw the mega-farms and grow your own greens, or
C. Build up a resistance to e. coli
take yer pick – I always choose A
#12 “I expect the Chinese to get better”
It’s interesting that with all the lack of hygiene in restaurants, human poop as fertilizer, recycled waste oil and other disgusting things people in China don’t drop like flies. WTF? Maybe Americans are getting too soft.
Like Carlin once said that his immune system is on 24hr red alert from swimming in raw sewage as a kid.
Cheers
Heaven forbid that we buy head or fresh leaf lettace, wash it(the Hispanic field workers have to pee somewhere folks), then build a salad. Christ, that might take 5 to 10 mins…..no way!!!!
#18….Angel….what???….you are joking right? If they are to lazy to rip some lettace apart themselves, you think they bother to rinse the stuff in the bag???
This is a perfect demonstration of the need for wider implementation of food irradiation.
#28 joshua It seems that Americans have their lives controlled by marketing.
American day to day life has been individually packaged for easy consumption. Everything that Americans do has been very carefully marketed for a easier ‘better life’.
Frozen pre-cooked, or just add water foods – take a look at any supermarket at the percentage of food which has been processed in some way. Yes even salad!
that to me is a joke!!
American cook books are a study of shortcuts in cooking often with canned soups as bases. Who has time to cook anyway? I need my time to bitch about things I don’t care to change.
I wonder when will be the day in the US when you just buy shit – real shit – at the supermarket which is ready to be flushed down your toilet. Saves all the trouble of making your own!
Cheers
#29 I think this just demonstrates people need to get back to just being normal instead of becoming the “boy in the bubble” – zero resistance to even the slightest infection.
Forget about all the sanitary hand washes get back to eating whatever comes down the pike. You will be much heather for it. That is being a true organic.
Cheers
Here’s a thought – since poop causes e.coli in the first place, isn’t e.coli just poop’s way of reproducing?
Calling all pirates: eat some e.coli salad and your butt will go Argghhhh!