Recall on romaine lettuce

debodun

debodun

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I received a phone message from the supermarket where I recently bought this lettuce to make a taco salald to bring to the church coffee fellowship. The lettuce is long gone, but no one got sick from my salad as far as I know. I ate some and it didn't bother me. Maybe what I bought wasn't contaminated. This happened a while back also when I had bought a packege of shaved steak. Why is it I always buy the food then it's recalled?
 

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I just recovered from food poisoning. It may have been Romaine or Chicken; I can't tell which. I heard about the Romaine AFTER I ate a big salad & chicken. I remember thinking, "It's too bad I can't "uneat" something, but maybe I'll get lucky. I didn't. 102 fever for 2 days, lost 7 pounds that I didn't really have to spare, along with the two other unpleasantries. It may have been botulism, which is more serious & takes longer to recover from. It took me 5 days before I felt normal.
I just heard about 160,000 lbs of contaminated pork & beef recalled. They even said not to give pig ears to your dogs.
 

debodun said:
It's probably a good thing that I cook all meats VERY thoroughly on the occasion I eat meat.
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Thoroughly cooking meat only kills some types of bacteria - like e-coli & maybe Salmonella. It does not kill botulism:
Boiling alone does not kill botulism bacteria (and neither does cooking).
https://www.bing.com/search?q=Clost...d62db-6a72-b1fa-7ca8-43e62df7a879&form=ENTLNK
Botulism is so hard to kill is because it forms heat- and chemical-resistant endospores (dormant, stripped-down structures) in unfavorable environments.
 
IrisSenior said:
Our contaminated romaine lettuce came from Salinas California.
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That's what we've been told. But whenever this type of outbreak occurs, they always say it has spread to other areas. I think most people (like myself) recover at home & don't need to see a doctor, so there is no record of what caused it & no "samples" to verify what caused it.
 
Wash each leaf of romaine under running water. Use your thumbs to lightly rub the surface of the leaf and fold out any folded areas on the leaf making sure to rub the crease well. Do this with each leaf and rinse well. It really bothers me the amount of lettuce thrown away and wasted during each of these recalls.
 

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