Do NOT eat bagged spinach until further notice!

[SpongeBathHotPants]

That is why health food is bad. Do like I do and avoid i at all costs. You have never heard of a weird sickness from a cup cake now have ya.....

 

[PaperDoll]

I have to get rid of my bag of spinach :sick: Gosh, all those vitamins going to waste.. :crazy:

 

[Beyond Belief]

I sure am glad the guy at the mall gave me green beans instead of the spinach I asked for

 

[trixie]

You guys are really scaring me. .

 

[jon_burrows]

CNN just held a news conference on the outbreak. It has spread to 10 states now.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/HEALTH/09/15/tainted.spinach.ap/index.html

 

[Marthatex]

Well I sure am glad my son likes to grow lettuce in his backyard! Personally, I'm just going to eat the mint that my husband plants in front.

My husband has never allowed me to buy any of the packaged lettuce. He was a microbiology major, and I guess it's just the idea of it. Seems like even if it's on one piece of lettuce, the germs would spread in that packaged environment. Is the air sucked out? I don't know; but even like the Cruise Ships - I AM CONVINCED. You will never find me on a large cruise ship.

 

[meowy]

How scary Just what I need, more fears! Keeping an eye on my health now I guess, I'm already real sick with a Lupus flare up this month grrr.

We go through 4 bags of spinach a week sometimes. It pains me to toss out two unopened bags, but it makes me gag to think we've done eaten 3 bags in the last few days.. well, mostly me.

CRAP! I just realized that I dunno what I'm fixing for dinner now. It was either stirfry (with bagged spinach) or taco salad (of course, with bagged spinach).

 

[dingo]

How scary Just what I need, more fears! Keeping an eye on my health now I guess, I'm already real sick with a Lupus flare up this month grrr.

We go through 4 bags of spinach a week sometimes. It pains me to toss out two unopened bags, but it makes me gag to think we've done eaten 3 bags in the last few days.. well, mostly me.

CRAP! I just realized that I dunno what I'm fixing for dinner now. It was either stirfry (with bagged spinach) or taco salad (of course, with bagged spinach).

Hello Meowy......spinach is so easy to grow....we grow our veggies the organic way....if your yard isnt big enough ....grow it in a pot......Ive noticed on the whats cooking thread that a lot of your stuff comes canned or packaged...to us its a luxuary to buy prepared veggies and salads....fresh is best

 

[Dark Knight]

Even if you wash the spinach, you still could be at risk. The FDA warned people nationwide not to eat the spinach. Washing won't get rid of the tenacious bug, though thorough cooking can kill it.

By Friday, the outbreak had grown to include at least 20 states: California, Connecticut, Idaho, Indiana, Kentucky, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, New Mexico, Nevada, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Utah, Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin and Wyoming, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Wisconsin accounted for 29 illnesses, about one-third of the cases, including the lone death.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060915/ap_on_he_me/tainted_spinach

 

[meowy]

Hello Meowy......spinach is so easy to grow....we grow our veggies the organic way....if your yard isnt big enough ....grow it in a pot......Ive noticed on the whats cooking thread that a lot of your stuff comes canned or packaged...to us its a luxuary to buy prepared veggies and salads....fresh is best

Oo thank you! We'll have to give that a shot. Easy to grow is my kind of thing haha. I have horrible plant skills. I kind of forget to water them haha


Oh man.. I see my state on that newest list. Great. I hope those who get ill from it recover fully, and very quickly.

 

[Dark Knight]

Also from the above article:
E. coli lives in the intestines of cattle and other animals and typically is spread through contamination by fecal material. Brackett said the use of manure as a fertilizer for produce typically consumed raw, such as spinach, is not in keeping with good agricultural practices. "It is something we don't want to see," he told a food policy conference.

That must include backyard gardens, I'd have to venture! And that's one way organic growers fertilize their veggies. No more manure on my garden! And hopefully no deer will poo on it, either, lol.

 

[chicoliving]

Also from the above article:
E. coli lives in the intestines of cattle and other animals and typically is spread through contamination by fecal material. Brackett said the use of manure as a fertilizer for produce typically consumed raw, such as spinach, is not in keeping with good agricultural practices. "It is something we don't want to see," he told a food policy conference.

That must include backyard gardens, I'd have to venture! And that's one way organic growers fertilize their veggies. No more manure on my garden! And hopefully no deer will poo on it, either, lol.

Manure has its place but never in my garden beds the same year I plant veggies. Just the ick factor is enough for me. Compost fine, but aged manure (I forget the actual term) let alone fresh nevah!!:snooty:

 

[poco]

That is why health food is bad. Do like I do and avoid i at all costs. You have never heard of a weird sickness from a cup cake now have ya.....

LOL, good one!!!! - hmmm, or a potato chip, either ---

 

[dark_shadows]

Tainted Spinach Traced to California



By ANDREW BRIDGES (Associated Press Writer)
From Associated Press
September 15, 2006 11:13 PM EDT
WASHINGTON - A California natural foods company was linked Friday to a nationwide E. coli outbreak that has killed one person and sickened nearly 100 others. Supermarkets across the country pulled spinach from shelves, and consumers tossed out the leafy green.

Food and Drug Administration officials said that they had received reports of illness in 19 states. Twenty-nine people have been hospitalized, 14 of them with kidney failure.

The outbreak was traced to Natural Selection Foods, a holding company based in San Juan Bautista, Calif., known for Earthbound Farm and other brands. The company has voluntarily recalled products containing spinach.

FDA officials stressed that the bacteria had not been isolated in products sold by Natural Selection Foods but that the link was established by patient accounts of what they had eaten before becoming ill.

An investigation was continuing.

AP news link

 

[Dark Knight]

Tainted Spinach Traced to California



By ANDREW BRIDGES (Associated Press Writer)
From Associated Press
September 15, 2006 11:13 PM EDT
WASHINGTON - A California natural foods company was linked Friday to a nationwide E. coli outbreak that has killed one person and sickened nearly 100 others. Supermarkets across the country pulled spinach from shelves, and consumers tossed out the leafy green.

Food and Drug Administration officials said that they had received reports of illness in 19 states. Twenty-nine people have been hospitalized, 14 of them with kidney failure.

The outbreak was traced to Natural Selection Foods, a holding company based in San Juan Bautista, Calif., known for Earthbound Farm and other brands. The company has voluntarily recalled products containing spinach.

FDA officials stressed that the bacteria had not been isolated in products sold by Natural Selection Foods but that the link was established by patient accounts of what they had eaten before becoming ill.

An investigation was continuing.

DS, your mailbox is full and cannot receive PM's. :slap:

 

[dark_shadows]

DS, your mailbox is full and cannot receive PM's. :slap:

I am sorry Dark Knight.Thanks for the slap up side the head.I did not know it was full.
So please go ahead and PM.

P.S.
Thank-you so much for the thread.


Respectfully,
dark_shadows

 

[scandi]

I keep thinking about Gwynn Wellborn from Salem Or, and her close brush with death.

Just think about it! She had one of her favorite meals, a healthy and fresh spinach salad, and was stricken BANG just like that to almost the ultimate ilness one could have.

I remember reading about a boy who got e coli from eating a little piece of raw meat that dropped down on the table when he was making hamburger patties at boy scout camp. It took him almost forever to get well - many months as I remember. He was so sick, and relapsed many times, making it a slow struggle to survive. And he had the best attendants in his parents and doctors and the finest medical care one could ever have.

A tragic thing, e coli is. I hope all of those newly stricken patients are as well cared for as this boy and Gwynn.

None of us can always know everything, and dangers that lurk around everywhere even though we take precautionary measures in preparing and storing food. We all take a risk everyday when we buy food or eat even in the nicest restaurants we can. Even though we have to maintain positive spirits, it always will be there in the back of our minds, making us extra careful and wary with the food we buy and eat and serve to our families.


Scandi


PS: OMG, Here I digress, but the most fantabulously delicious spinach salad I have ever eaten was at the Spouting Horn Restaurant in Depoe Bay Or - on the Oregon Coast. It is a specialty there, and served with a quite warm honey mustard dressing that is poured over the spinach, chopped hard boiled eggs and freshly cooked bacon crumbles. It is something so different and yet so delicate and exquisite in its flavor, well, after this scare has passed you will have to go try it!~ :blowkiss: You will never forget it or reget it, it is that good!

And for those not living or vacationing in Oregon, if you want I will call the owner and get the exact recipe for you all so you can enjoy it no matter where you live. Just let me know and I'll post it in the food forum. xoxoxo

 

[Dark Knight]

I am sorry Dark Knight.Thanks for the slap up side the head.I did not know it was full.
So please go ahead and PM.

P.S.
Thank-you so much for the thread.


Respectfully,
dark_shadows

Now I forgot what I was gonna send, LOL! :crazy:

 

[Peter Hamilton]

"cooking the Spinach will kill the e-coli"---well,that doesn't do me any good---I love raw spinach,but cooked spinach makes me throw up--oh well,guess I'll just cook up some bell peppers instead--love those

 

[Peter Hamilton]

Scandi,I'm glad you mentioned Oregon--When we vacationed there back in '94,we had the best salmon and the best dungenouss crab we ever had in our lives--we had it almost every night we were here---Oregon's seafood rocks!