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    ALERT: Throw away your BAGGED SPINACH immediately!

    The FDA has just made an annoucement that an E. coli bacteria outbreak on bagged spinach is making people sick all over the United States. It killed 1 person. Even a 17 year old is extremely ill (so it doesn't matter how good your immune system is). Don't wash it, throw it out!!! Here's the article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060915/...ainted_spinach

    Also, my bagged salad includes spinach. Its got to go too!
    Last edited by Profitweb; September 15, 2006, 12:51 PM. Reason: Title wrong




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    Re: ALERT: Throw away your BAGGED SPINACH immediately!

    Cook it, then, if you bought it - it destroys the organisms.
    ~Susan
    49/f 5'7" Start 2-27-06 SW222/11-18-09 @ 160-ish/G135-150ish??

    Doin Miles, Flights, & Kid Ketchin'...
    2 Ab Chal's; 6WEC#27 slug-Free; & more; 50# LOST in'06-
    but regained ~20# in '07 in less than 3 weeks! And again early '08 ...Was in HEAVEN -got to 150, for awhile, then got too busy, and gave in too much... and... OK holding pattern "keep it together..."

    .................OMG how did I fail AGAIN
    (((on temporary break)))
    Sigh ... I'll be back... life isn't always fair 10-07-09

    "Goal: First you have to dream of it. Then you have to do it." Author unknown

    sheesh

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    • #3
      Re: ALERT: Throw away your BAGGED SPINACH immediately!

      True, it states, "Thorough cooking kills the bacterium." I recommend only doing this if you have a dishwasher though. You'll need heat to kill the bacteria that might get on your pan. Oh, you better not get it on your counter either. Heck, I'd just throw it out so it won't spread on anything!




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      • #4
        Re: ALERT: Throw away your BAGGED SPINACH immediately!

        I'm not giving up that easy! My pan will get just as hot as what's in it, plus I've got antibacterial wipes and lysol, not to mention a few shots of chaser to drown any of the little suckers that think they can make it to my gut, where they'd probably die anyway! I refuse to give in to media scares... they did this with DOLE bag salad 2 years ago, & the hype is still going around. My homegrown veggies hold a bigger risk than this as I use barnyard gold as fertilizer - I've never gotten sick.
        ~Susan
        49/f 5'7" Start 2-27-06 SW222/11-18-09 @ 160-ish/G135-150ish??

        Doin Miles, Flights, & Kid Ketchin'...
        2 Ab Chal's; 6WEC#27 slug-Free; & more; 50# LOST in'06-
        but regained ~20# in '07 in less than 3 weeks! And again early '08 ...Was in HEAVEN -got to 150, for awhile, then got too busy, and gave in too much... and... OK holding pattern "keep it together..."

        .................OMG how did I fail AGAIN
        (((on temporary break)))
        Sigh ... I'll be back... life isn't always fair 10-07-09

        "Goal: First you have to dream of it. Then you have to do it." Author unknown

        sheesh

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        • #5
          Re: ALERT: Throw away your BAGGED SPINACH immediately!

          O_o /faint

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          • #6
            Re: ALERT: Throw away your BAGGED SPINACH immediately!

            ((((( I can be sooooo mean sometimes!!!))))))
            ~Susan
            49/f 5'7" Start 2-27-06 SW222/11-18-09 @ 160-ish/G135-150ish??

            Doin Miles, Flights, & Kid Ketchin'...
            2 Ab Chal's; 6WEC#27 slug-Free; & more; 50# LOST in'06-
            but regained ~20# in '07 in less than 3 weeks! And again early '08 ...Was in HEAVEN -got to 150, for awhile, then got too busy, and gave in too much... and... OK holding pattern "keep it together..."

            .................OMG how did I fail AGAIN
            (((on temporary break)))
            Sigh ... I'll be back... life isn't always fair 10-07-09

            "Goal: First you have to dream of it. Then you have to do it." Author unknown

            sheesh

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            • #7
              Re: ALERT: Throw away your BAGGED SPINACH immediately!

              Sorry but this is going to gross everyone out. I ate "bagged" salad the other day and it had spinach...I guess that would explain why I had diahhrea . So yes, throw out your bagged spinach (unless cooking it).
              ~Lisa
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              • #8
                Re: ALERT: Throw away your BAGGED SPINACH immediately!

                Oh no!! I have been eating my bagged spinach! Today even time to google the symptoms of ecoli...
                Mindy
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                • #9
                  Re: ALERT: Throw away your BAGGED SPINACH immediately!

                  no need to GOOGLE hun, if you get infected with E coli, you are going to know it!!!!! Chances are you will be too sick to get close enough to you pc to GOOGLE anything.

                  The young, elderly and compromised can suffer kidney failure if the bacteria infests bad enough. Otherwise healthy young adults will suffer severe cramping, diarrhea and vomiting.



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                  • #10
                    Re: ALERT: Throw away your BAGGED SPINACH immediately!

                    Yeah. My MIL caught E-coli somehow last year. Wow. She went from looking perfectly healthy to being in the hospital looking like DEATH within HOURS.
                    Broke my heart to throw out my spinach this morning, but I did! :-(
                    BARB

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                    • #11
                      Re: ALERT: Throw away your BAGGED SPINACH immediately!

                      Before throwing it out, did you check where it came from? Mine was Dole and came from Salinas, so I feel good about it.

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                      • #12
                        Re: ALERT: Throw away your BAGGED SPINACH immediately!

                        Originally posted by G-Mom
                        Before throwing it out, did you check where it came from? Mine was Dole and came from Salinas, so I feel good about it.
                        Nope the news said no matter what the label was. I am scared of E-coli!!
                        That $2 or whatever I spent is not worth it. I know.
                        BARB

                        Life is what happens to you
                        while you're busy making other plans!
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                        • #13
                          Re: ALERT: Throw away your BAGGED SPINACH immediately!

                          Wow slight over panic; not every leaf is coated in ecoli.

                          That said, why risk it for 2 bucks.


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                          • #14
                            Re: ALERT: Throw away your BAGGED SPINACH immediately!

                            Originally posted by CarbaholicJoe
                            Wow slight over panic; not every leaf is coated in ecoli.

                            That said, why risk it for 2 bucks.
                            Wow. Ever seen anybody with E-coli??
                            That's why!
                            BARB

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                            while you're busy making other plans!
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                            • #15
                              Re: ALERT: Throw away your BAGGED SPINACH immediately!

                              Originally posted by Barbde
                              Wow. Ever seen anybody with E-coli??
                              That's why!
                              Umm, come on now, you're more likely to get hit by a bus.


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