A Warning From Corrine

Corrine has brought this news item to my attention. I researched it myself and it is true.

Thanks Corrine, for watching out for us.

And the rest of you, who loves ya?

NBC Dateline did a documentary on cut-up lettuce and spinach packaged in plastic bags. They took us through the whole process and talked about how the E coli bacteria is now showing up in the salad mix in bags. They don't know yet how the E coli got in, but they do know that deaths and serious sicknesses are occurring in many states.
One woman told about how her child was near death from the lettuce and was sick for a long time. They warned us not to buy any bag salads until they find out from the investigation what is causing this contamination. The Dole Company has recalled their bags.


Here is what Snopes says. Snopes is my bible when it comes to online investigation.

In May 2006, the warning quoted above began appearing in inboxes. It is a mixture of two items: an October 2005 warning from the Food and Drug Administration about E. coli found in prepackaged salads vended by Dole in the Minnesota area, and a 30 April 2006 NBC Dateline segment about that October 2005 outbreak and the potential for additional contaminations of similar nature. Though thrown together from two sources, the e-mailed alert is accurate: E. coli was found in bagged salad mix in October 2005, and the FDA did issue a nationwide consumer alert about it. Dole Food Company recalled the implicated salad products, but even so 23 people who had eaten the contaminated greens became ill, with eight having to be hospitalized and one child developing a severe complication called hemolytic-uremic syndrome (in which red blood cells are destroyed and kidneys fail).

And, of course, the links to this information.

Dateline.

Snopes.

I've always said, "Let's be careful out there", but I never knew I was also referring to bagged lettuce.