Romaine lettuce off the table again

[Mosca]

You can Google it if you want. 32 people, 11 states, e. coli.

[JGo37]

Romaine lettuce is unsafe to eat in any form, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Tuesday in a broad alert in response to a new outbreak of illnesses caused by a particularly dangerous type of E. coli contamination.

The CDC told consumers to throw away any romaine lettuce they may already have purchased. Restaurants should not serve it, stores should not sell it, and people should not buy it, no matter where or when the lettuce was grown. It doesn’t matter if it is chopped, whole head or part of a mix. All romaine should be avoided.

The CDC alert, issued just two days before Americans sit down for their Thanksgiving dinners, reported that 32 people in 11 states have become sick from eating contaminated romaine. Of those, 13 have been hospitalized, with one patient suffering from a form of kidney failure. No deaths have been reported.

[Frozen Smoke]

Just read the article JGo37 posted above before getting here. Bad news as I love Romaine.

[JGo37]

I'm on my way out the door to buy the last minute stuff for Thursday, which includes the salad.

So, thanks Mosca , but we want to shoot the messenger.

[Mosca]

No, please, don’t shoot!

[Huskee]

I was going to post this same PSA. Here's the CDC's warning article: https://www.cdc.gov/ecoli/2018/o157h7-11-18/index.html

I usually eat a Romaine salad every night, including just tonight.

[Jerod Broussard]

They haven't even nailed a region down. I would say it's a shame you can't cook it, but people mess that up plenty with raw meat that gets cooked.