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Romaine Lettuce and E Colo

Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2018 2:30 am
by Bobbie
Consumer Reports warns against eating any romaine lettuce

Food safety experts at Consumer Reports are advising people in the U.S. and Canada to stop eating romaine lettuce.

During the past seven weeks, 58 people in the U.S. and Canada have become ill from the strain of E. coli O157: H7. One person in each country has died. In the U.S., the infections have been confirmed in 13 states — California, Connecticut, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Vermont and Washington.

Re: Romaine Lettuce and E Colo

Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2018 5:44 pm
by Bobbie
The soil the romaine was grown in was contaminated.