Toss Your Bagged Spinach

[scorpiogirl]

Just watching GMA and a news report came on about a woman dying from eating contaminated bagged spinach. They have no way of tracking where it came from and there are 8 states that bag it. Hers was contaminated with E-coli.

Toss em and sub something else for a minute. Stores are pulliing it all off the shelves.........

 

[annieree]

Just watching GMA and a news report came on about a woman dying from eating contaminated bagged spinach. They have no way of tracking where it came from and there are 8 states that bag it. Hers was contaminated with E-coli.

Toss em and sub something else for a minute. Stores are pulliing it all off the shelves.........

Doesn't e-coli depend on how it is stored?

I remember when I was in hospital they threw away my bagged lettuce because it wasn't kept refrigerated. (Maybe I'm talking about something completely different)

 

[*Bunny*]

http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/s/salads.htm

Guess whose been eating this last two days ...



and here

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

 

[musclemom]

Doesn't e-coli depend on how it is stored?

I remember when I was in hospital they threw away my bagged lettuce because it wasn't kept refrigerated. (Maybe I'm talking about something completely different)

Oh there's LOTS of bacteria that contaminate food, some more common ones are listeria, which is generally associated with deli/prepackaged meats. Botulinum is the one that comes from spoiled canned goods (and yes, it is where Botox came from). Salmonella is associated mostly with chickens/eggs (the old undercooked chicken/bad potato salad scenarios).

E. coli infection generally comes from exposure to contaminated fecal material, short and sweet. If waste got into the water the spinach was washed in after picking, that would be one route of contamination (there's a lot of others, frankly they're pretty much disgusting and it's just not morning conversation).

There's more than one variety of e. coli, they are all naturally occuring bacteria that live in the bowels of a lot of animals, humans included. It's when it ends up somewhere it SHOULDN'T be, that it causes problems and runs rampant.

 

[musclemom]

http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/s/salads.htm

Guess whose been eating this last two days ...



and here

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

Try not to worry Buns, seriously. We get exposed to this stuff (foreign bacteria on food) constantly. Even if, in the EXTREMELY low event you consumed the "baddies," you don't automatically become infected. The people who are MOST likely to be infected are those with less, let's say vigilent immune systems (very young people, who's immune systems don't have enough wanted posters up, and very old people) and, believe it or not, people who take antacids or have generally poor digestion -- our stomach acids are also a line of defense. If we got sick every time we swallowed some bacteria our species never would have made it this far

 

[annieree]

Try not to worry Buns, seriously. We get exposed to this stuff (foreign bacteria on food) constantly. Even if, in the EXTREMELY low event you consumed the "baddies," you don't automatically become infected. The people who are MOST likely to be infected are those with less, let's say vigilent immune systems (very young people, who's immune systems don't have enough wanted posters up, and very old people) and, believe it or not, people who take antacids or have generally poor digestion -- our stomach acids are also a line of defense. If we got sick every time we swallowed some bacteria our species never would have made it this far

I suppose the best way to look at it is - if a kid can eat a mouthful of mud and survive we can eat a spot of bacteria.

 

[Roonytunes]

Guess what I packed for meal 4 today...3 cups of bagged spinach in my salad! On the upside, I've been eating out of this bag all week and haven't had problems thus far, so I should be okay <fingers crossed>

 

[H_T_]

some of my favorite words are in this thread title.

 

[scorpiogirl]

So far there are 94 cases of illness and 1 death and the number is expected to grow......just an fyi.....listening to the news right now. It's coast to coast not just in a certain region.

 

[Sassy69]

I went into a Kroger's last night looking for spinach - NONE. Ended up w/ romaine hearts.