Have you heard the romaine scare?

I saw an article about it, yes. I would follow the advice.

My friend got e coli poisoning here, we think from that. A week or so ago.

I know what I posted here is not so much a question, as a notice.
I just want my fluther friends to be safe.
I am glad you are.
So many cooks in the pool, I wanted to pass along the word.

Edit, @KNOWITALL, you popped in there just when I clicked.
How is your friend?

Yes. I’m aware. Have switched to green leaf lettuce weeks ago.

@Patty Melt Seems fine now. He didnt offer more so I didnt ask. He works at a school and had a few chef salads.

E. Coli can kill !

Don’t mess with any Romaine, organic or mixed with iceberg.

Just saw it on TV. Luckily, I haven’t bought any romaine recently. They said not to buy any. Is it actually still on the shelves in markets with this warning?

Didn’t the Romaines kill Jesus?

Heard about it
Where was the contaminated produce grown?

@josie, they don’t have the source yet. At this time no romaine can be considered safe.
I believe they also said this is a new strain of e coli.

If anybody has some, please throw it out.

Wow thanks for this post. I haven’t watched the news the past few days

I’d heard of it, yes. I’m generally a salad-dodger, though on Friday I went to a restaurant and ordered a dish that came with a small salad, and some of that lettuce was romaine.

This isn’t a scare, it’s a warning from the CDC, just flat out don’t eat romaine at all, regardless of source.

Are you saying my wording belittles the seriousness?
I believe I made it clear that this is serious, and widespread. If I failed, I apologize. To me, it is scary, and that is the word which I felt when I first heard.
If I thought the warnings were bogus, I would have used the word farce.

I think scare, is appropriate. Death by diarrhea, and/or kidney failure, would be unpleasant.

Thanks for the heads up Patty.

I heard about a romaine scare several months back. Is there another one going on now? I hadn’t heard anything about that. Thanks for the warning, @Patty_Melt !

Romaine was the largest selling type of lettuce greens, by far, until the first set of warnings a couple months ago. Romaine made a lot of money for growers in Arizona and Texas.

I guess those companies will be going out of business now – including some major multi-nationals.

Sort of .. the Fall of the Romaine Empire

e tu Brute?

Friends, Romaines, Countrymen! Lettuce now praise famous men. We come to bury Caesar salad not to eat it.

I see fluther has the holiday spirit in gear. :-)

I hope everyone gets ample goodies, maybe even a little extra. Just don’t have romaine in your salads.
A good cook romaines ever vigilant.

Beware the endives of November.

I’m surprised they can’t narrow it down to specific growers.

From what i have been reading, the distributors get the romaine from dozen, even hundreds of different growers, and it gets aggregated at regional centers where it is processed and packaged. And then shipped all over the country.

That, plus the issue that e Coli takes from 3–4 weeks to show up as a health problem, makes the whole tracking issue extremely difficult. Can you tell me what you had to eat 3½ weeks ago?

The CDC has narrowed it to romaine from two counties in California.

Several major romaine lettuce producers have agreed to label products with a harvest date by region, and new romaine from different growing regions, including Florida and Arizona, is being restocked in grocery shelves.

Great news! Thanks for keeping us informed.