New serious warning from the Feds and Consumer Reports: Stop eating Romaine Lettuce. The warning follows some 3 dozen new cases of e. coli outbreaks sickening people. E-Coli often comes from human waste and often gets in produce from farm workers relieving themselves in the fields. While the CDC specifies not eating romaine products from specific growing areas, Consumer Reports goes even further and says don’t take a chance…. don’t eat it until the national problem has been resolved.
A new E. coli outbreak has sickened 35 people across the U.S.
A new outbreak of E. coli in 11 states has been linked by government investigators to bagged, chopped romaine lettuce grown in Yuma, Ariz. Consumer Reports is recommending—for the second time since January—that consumers avoid all romaine lettuce for now.
Consumer Reports’ advice goes beyond that of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which is recommending that consumers buy or order bagged romaine lettuce at a supermarket or restaurant only after confirming that it didn’t originate in the Yuma growing region. Investigators haven’t pointed to any particular romaine suppliers or growers, but many domestic greens are grown in the Yuma region at this time of year.
The CDC also advises that if you’ve purchased bagged, chopped romaine lettuce—including salads and salad mixes containing romaine—you should throw it away immediately.
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