The outbreak occured in Canada and the North East of the US it was reported from mid Nov to mid Dec and the shelf life of leafy greens is short as far as where socal gets its produce most stores usually get it from local growers or from Mexico not Canada or east coast for sure. So you should be fine with the romaine where ever you buy produce in socal as Long as it is a clean establishment
I wouldn't get from there. I hear Costco hasn't had that problem.
Wash your fruits and veggies properly if ever concerned. Even if there was never an outbreak reported, it is just a good rule of thumb. Things are not grown in a sealed environment. Birds, insects, rodents and various animals always visit the fields, or fly over. To think mine of them defecate, or think "oh, I shouldn't poop here because it is the human's food" is kind of naive. In fact, pretty sure if they knew they would purposely make little poop castles all over our food, and smile while doing it. Anyway, wash your veggies and fruit.
I think is safe. I got some of it last week. I washed carefully whit running water. and I had no problem at all.
I would be careful with whole foods products. I went there a while ago to get some hot food, but there were flies flying around and even landing on the food. Later that day, I emailed them and they denied the fact that there were flies. Since then, I have never gotten hot food there at all.
I would not buy romaine lettuce tight now from anywhere as the origin of the e.coli has not been identified that i am aware of. I definitely would not eat romaine lettuce from a restaurant now.
Yes it is but like anything grown in the ground. It must be washed thoroughly. You may want to switch to spinach
I got organic lettuce, I'm hesitant about it now. What I didn't like is the employee saying she didn't even hear about it or not even upper management said anything about the break down. ... thank you guys for the response. ..
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