Another reason not to eat vedgetahbills!

[Michael_in_TX]

Just leaving this here, apropos of nothing.

[zblongladder]

You inspired me to order a cheap used copy of that, b/c I've got a vegetarian roommate moving in in about a month (she and her boyfriend were being kicked out of their apartment and couldn't find a place to live), so having some good veggie recipes around will be a big boon.

[Michael_in_TX]

Also, come to Texas, yall!!

https://www.texasmonthly.com/food/texas-taquerias-cyclosporiasis/

[dubob]

Y'all gonna grill lettuce? Really???

[zblongladder]

You'd be surprised...some cultures really like cooked lettuce. Like, it's pretty common to get blanched lettuce with Cantonese BBQ.

[dubob]

Ain't doin' it. I like my lettuce cold & crisp. 😁

[cruiseplanner1]

My sister was telling me about how good her grilled Romaine was and I admit it had a fair taste at best, but like dubob said cold and crisp please.

[Panhead John]

After many hours of research on the cyclosporiasis virus, I’ve found the perfect remedy to avoid getting sick. Please follow his instructions carefully.

[klflowers]

Beautiful

[cruiseplanner1]

Glad to see that they found the source and now I am able to eat my fresh Michigan Romaine and Leaf lettuce with no concerns. I do eat a large salad for lunch most every day. This morning after the news I made a nice Asian salad with a Napa Cabbage and also a marinated tomato salad. As long as I keep away from the bagged salads and lettuce should be alright. Not sure what to do about getting spinach though.

[FireMan]

Pizza - Healthy!!!
Peanut butter n' honey (or jelly) - Healrhy!!!
Grilled Stuff - Healthy!!!

[dubob]

YES! AMEN! Lovin' it! 😁

[Donw]

Update this morning in the news. The FDA reported that their finding of Cyclospora in lettuce from Taylor Farms was a ‘False Positive.’

[Oak Smoke]

Good I’m fond of ordering their salad kits when I get groceries delivered from Walmart.

[Panhead John]

https://babylonbee.com/news/taco-bell-releases-new-imodium-a-d-sauce-packets-to-combat-explosive-diarrhea-outbreak

[Michael_in_TX]

Update this morning in the news. The FDA reported that their finding of Cyclospora in lettuce from Taylor Farms was a ‘False Positive.’

I was like...there is no way this is correct. Yep, it is. Wow. All this over several days was a mistake. Crazy.

So back to square one.

It looks like Taylor Farms has had a history of problematic contamination (although I don't know if that is atypical), but still....that has got to be a near-worst-case scenario for a produce company.

I think Taco Bell comes out kinda the winner here....even though Taylor Farms was incorrectly identified, Taco Bell knew within hours where any shipment of that lettuce ended up. They seem to be on top of their supply chain.

And also I thought that Taco Bell being the primary retail source of the lettuce was strange. There simply is no way that everyone in Michigan is eating that much Taco Bell. (Or are you? Is there something you need to tell us?)

[Huskee]

Taco Bell fan here. I usually order mine without lettuce. Shredded lettuce is the most pointless wasteful ingredient on anything in my personal tastes. A nice crisp, green, whole leaf of lettuce on a burger, love it. Shredded, no thank you.

[Jerod Broussard]

Not long ago they had a recall on Dino chicken nuggets due to arsenic. Turns out the lab in New York had some arsenic contamination in the lab that tainted the sample.

[FireMan]

This is sounding more like the officiating at the World Cup soccer game. Let's add some minutes to the affair. No head lettuce please.

[FireMan]

In other words as Emily Latila would say: "Never mind".

[Oak Smoke]

So would Roseann Roseanna Danna!

[Michael_in_TX]

The reporting on this is so confusing. I'm not sure if reporters were just getting it wrong or if the FDA isn't having a great week explaining things to reporters.

So, Taylor Farms is still considered to be the main problem and both Taylor Farms, the CDC, and the FDA agree.

I thought this quote from a professor of microbiology and food science at Rutgers summed it up nicely:

“Taylor Farms is still implicated because of the epidemiology,” [Donald] Schaffner wrote in an email. “This means that people that ate at Taco Bell, and ate Taylor Farm lettuce, are sick with the parasite. It’s important to realize that this is only a statistical correlation. Correlation is not causation, but it was strong enough evidence that FDA and CDC believe that this is the cause.”

Full article by NBC News Health Reporter Berkeley Lovelace, Jr. is here: https://www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...eak-rcna588385

[Jerod Broussard]

Sampling is just that....a sample. You can have a facility sickening 9+ people a year with a positive sample coming around once every 5.5 years, no false positives or negatives.