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.
Keep on ignoring the TV. I just watched a CNN ignoramus “reporting” on this.
1. This was 1st picked up because Canada does random testing in supermarkets. Well, there was a point worth discussing. Nope.
2. Dole says “we test everything at our plants” – so, her conclusion – “the contamination must have happened between the plants and the supermarkets”.
I guess there’s a terrorist out there injecting e.coli into plastic bags. Why mention the obvious? Dole’s QC was inadequate.
ANOTHER salad recall? That’s it…. I’m moving to a remote corner of the world and growing all my own food.
Who said only food from China was Bad?
Lots of reporting on bad food for the salad bar.
Lots of reporting on bad food from South America?
Eating food one of the safest things you can do. More likely to die moving to your pristine farm.
Stupid reporting. Fear mongering. Silly Rabbits.
It will be the food that isn’t reported that will get you…..
Shit happens everywhere (no pun intended).
Old Chinese proverb “Crows everywhere are equally black.”
Cheers
Jay Leno have found the exact answer to why this is happening:
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#3 – remove your head from the hole it’s in and read something more than Marvel Comix.
In the state where I live, we haven’t had anyone die from supermarket food poisoning, oh – since last week.
http://www.freenewmexican.com/news/68725.html
e.coli is the new food additive. It’s more efficient than fiber for creating poop.
Who eats salad out of a bag?
#9 – Excellent point. If they could come up with an edible bag we wouldn’t need to take the salad out first.
Uh, #9 – what vegan planet do you live on?
Bagged salad was invented by a couple who owned an organic farm named Earthbound Farms – and has grown a bit larger from their roadside stand in 1986.
Of course, we all know that only food from China is really dangerous.
While far from perfect, North American food quality has a much quicker reaction time and response than do the Chinese. North Americans are also generally much less likely to substitute non approved additives than the Chinese have done in the past.
I expect the Chinese to get better, and for their sake I hope so. Could we be better? Of course !!! Even so, we have among the safest food supply systems in the world.
>>Who eats salad out of a bag?
Check the produce section of your local grocery store.
Not everyone is a stay-at-home mom like you, with endless time on their hands to cut up lettuce, tomatoes, peppers, onions, garlic, cucumbers, radishes, mozzarella, celery, arugula, and all the other ingredients of a mom-made salad.
Ya. What god, Fusy & Musty said.
#13 – dont forget mushrooms, then top it with freshly grilled chicken, steak, shrimp, etc. Even a salad should have meat. (unless you had all that stuff in “other ingredients).
Damn, I’m getting hungry now.
Well, the death rate from food poisoning is so low I can’t find any chart with it. So, heres my rough first guess==assuming average of 2.5 Millions deaths per year, and average 5000 per year from food poisoning, we have a death rate of .002%. Now, that is 8 times higher than the shark attack rate.
Don’t even want to calcuate the horrors of eating salad while surfing.
>>Even a salad should have meat. (unless you had all that stuff
>>in “other ingredients).
That was included. Shrimp, chicken, lobster, scallops, crayfish, etc. Even a God-fearing fellow like myself though, often starts out with a bagged salad and then adds the good stuff. And the ‘shrooms go without saying.
#13
Are Americans so lazy that they don’t even rinse the goddam pieces of mutilated plants before eating them?
The problem is a world shortage of toilet paper. Those lettuce leaves come in mighty handy in third world countries like Arkansas.
#17 – Sounds like you make a damn fine salad just like the ones in my household.