The outbreak linked to romaine lettuce killed one person and sickened at least 88 more, including a 9-year-old boy who nearly died of kidney failure.
An E. coli outbreak linked to romaine lettuce ripped across 15 states in November, sickening dozens of people, including a 9-year-old boy in Indiana who nearly died of kidney failure and a 57-year-old Missouri woman who fell ill after attending a funeral lunch. One person died.
But chances are you haven’t heard about it.
The Food and Drug Administration indicated in February that it had closed the investigation without publicly detailing what had happened — or which companies were responsible for growing and processing the contaminated lettuce.
Government agencies literally doing nothing resembling their description for the people. I grew up in the cold war, and these were among the sorts of stories we heard about the Soviet Union.
We are nothing more than another natural resource to these people,and as long as enough of the herd is healthy, that’s good enough for them.
This is exactly it. We are running more and more like what we complained the soviets did in the 80’s.
Disgusting. I’d rather pay extra for imports at this point if possible. I just don’t trust American products.
That makes no difference, this could’ve happened with an imported product for all you know
You mean from a country with strong and monitored food safety processes?
I suppose it could be tampered with such that no one would ever notice even with the proper handling. Maybe by evil alien robots. No one would know!
E. coli outbreaks also occur in Europe, unfortunately
Do they also cover it up?
No, but they’re not investigating outbreaks of imported food in the US either. The point is an outbreak in the US could have come from anywhere because we know nothing about it
I had some bad food experiences that led me to growing microgreens at home rather than trust store bought lettuce. It turns out to be extremely simple and cost-effective to do, plus, you can have a lot more variety. Check out a guy called Mike Van Duzee on YouTube. He has so many great ideas for growing using whatever you have, instead of spending money.
My mom was sick for a month and a half because of E.coli last year. It was difficult to treat. It’s the sort of thing that definitely should get any food producer SEVERE consequences. Like manslaughter charges at the very least. You need to be very, very careful in food safety or you could very well end up killing someone.
I understand from the article that they can’t pin down which producer it was. But in cases where that’s obvious, there need to be severe punishments.
Kid needs to pull himself up by the bootstraps
Indiana, Missouri
Ah, so people from the Nazi states are dying? good
You can’t choose where you are born.
That 9 year old was clearly a hardcore Nazi.
Don’t let them get old enough to help ruin shit, idgaf
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