Only a few days after we were told that it was once again safe to eat spinach, the FDA issued a recall on lettuce from the Salinas-based Nunes Co. The recall only applies to lettuce purchased from October 3-6 in seven western states: Oregon, Idaho, Montana,California, Nevada, Washington and Arizona, and "the recalled lettuce was packaged as "Green Leaf 24 Count, waxed carton," and "Green Leaf 18 Count, cellophane sleeve, returnable carton." Packaging is stamped with lot code 6SL0024."
The reason that the lettuce was recalled was due to a concern over a possibly E.coli contamination in the water supply to the fields, although no E.coli has been found in any of the lettuce and no people have reported illness. The owner of the family-run company says that they have strict safety protocols, which were strengthened when the "spinach scare" broke out.
At this point, all lettuce covered by the recall should be off shelves, but it could be a good idea to check the bags in your fridge just in case.
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10-09-2006 @ 1:46PM
Finished Law School said...
Oh my, what will all the crazy PETA people eat?
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10-10-2006 @ 9:54AM
Jon said...
The only lettuce-eaters in Oregon, Idaho, Montana, California, Nevada, Washington, and Arizona are "crazy PETA people"?
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10-10-2006 @ 2:47PM
MJ said...
This is bad! there have been so many recalls on foods these days. This needs to be resolved, peoples lives are at stake!
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10-10-2006 @ 6:15PM
James said...
E. Coli comes from human fecal matter. I wonder how human fecal matter got into the water supply? Farm workers perhaps?
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10-10-2006 @ 8:30PM
Mike said...
Ignorance is more dangerous than E. coli will ever be.
Food grown outside in/near dirt and/or is irrigated is susceptible to contamination. That's not new. People are just hypersensitive to reports of it at the moment.
E. coli can be found in human fecal matter, but not only human but cows, chickens,deer or other animals that might have wandered through the field.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.coli
No more lives are at stake today than 6 months ago, and with more scrutiny less are. If you're still worried, feel free to buy individual heads of local greens from local farms rather than bags of salad from the factory types.
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10-11-2006 @ 1:24PM
FJK said...
Update, news reports here in California today say that while the irrigation water was tainted the greens were not infected with E.Coli
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