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Bagged Greens: Worth the Risk?

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     Posted 9/28/06 5:55 PM   
Dayhawk.Kim
 
From  Dayhawk.Kim  Posts 21  Last 9/11/08
To  All      [Msg # 8.1 ]    

Bagged Greens: Worth the Risk?

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The E. coli contamination of spinach farms in California has triggered an outbreak across the nation.
The nationwide cleanup in the produce isle has farmers quivering at the prospect of a slump in bagged salad sale, as we the consumers wonder whether we should even touch fresh leafy vegetables for a while. What would you do?

Food poisoning used to be a smalltown affair. It is not like that anymore, as produce grown in one part of the country crisscrosses state lines, and fruits grown in South America are shipped all over the world.

At least 183 persons in 26 states have been infected with the potentially lethal strain of Escherichia coli bacteria (serotype O157:H7). (See the latest count here.) Of them, 29 developed the most feared consequence of the infection -- known as hemolytic uremic syndrome [HUS].

The syndrome describes the destruction of red blood cells (by bursting), low platelet count and kidney failure. As a result, patients with H.U.S. may suffer neurological problems, such as seizures and stroke, and/or need a new kidney.

About 3 to 5 percent of the patients with H.U.S. do not make it, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC]. And those who do may suffer lifelong health problems. But Brianne Kinner, a victim of the 1993 Jack in the Box E. coli outbreak, survived after facing all but certain death.

Luckily not all E. coli bacteria are deadly. Most of them are relatively harmless and live in our intestines. But the source of the latest outbreak has been traced to spinach farms run by Natural Selection Foods LLC.
10 Things You Should Know About E. coli O157:H7 and the Outbreak
The C.D.C. has lowered its warning level from 'no spinach' to 'some spinach,' saying avoid spinach grown in Monterey, San Benito and Santa Clara Counties, California. Frozen and canned spinach are fine.

This bacteria is known to live in the guts of healthy cows, deer, goats and sheep that do not get ill because toxins produced by this E. coli have a tough time binding to their cells.

So how did the E. coli in animal manure end up on the spinach farms? Investigators have good guesses, but the F.D.A. admits it cannot not pinpoint the source of the 19 E. coli outbreaks associated with lettuce and spinach since 1995.

In November 2005, the F.D.A. sent a strongly worded letter to try to get lettuce and spinach growers to take action and called "claims that 'we cannot take action until we know the cause' are unacceptable."

The growers, of course, do not want any mandatory guidelines and favor unspecified voluntary actions.

The problem still remains. Carline Smith DeWaal, of the Center for Science in the Public Interest, told Gannett News: "Nobody's really checking, nobody's really auditing or monitoring that in fact they're using their guidelines."

As the government and growers battle it out, the consumers are the ones left without a reasonable guarantee of safety.

Has the latest E. coli outbreak changed your diet? Did you find alternate source of leafy greens?


[Views expressed are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect those of CompuServe, Netscape, any government, agency, or news organization.]


Edited 9/29/2006 7:08 pm ET by Dayhawk.Kim
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     Posted 7/5/07 6:22 PM   
worralle
 
From  worralle  Posts 1  Last 7/5/07
To  Dayhawk.Kim      [Msg # 8.2 Message 8.2 replying to 8.1 8.1 ]    (Unread)
No, definitely not worth risking your life for a different texture of food. Personally I have had problems with leaf lettuce from a local restaurant. I believe it's caused by workers defecating amomg the vegetables. Therefore I don't eat raw vegetables unless they come from my garden. .
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     Posted 7/16/07 11:47 AM   
Huh Duh
 
From  Huh Duh  Posts 4  Last Aug-12
To  Dayhawk.Kim      [Msg # 8.3 Message 8.3 replying to 8.1 8.1 ]    (Unread)

Sounds like those making millions,factory farms,health org. and the F.D.A.AND THE WASHINGTON POLITICOS, ARE NOT AS CAPABLE OF RUNNING THINGS AS THEY CLAIM TO BE.

Sure get paid well to do a half ass job of what they are supposed to be protecting the public from.
Oh we;;!crooks and criminals will continue to be crooks and criminals, as long as the public is to cowardly and lazy to do anything about it.And as long as there is no penalty other than paying a fine to who ever, it will continue to go on for eternity.

Thanks for the factual information and factual report on those that are poisoning our children and getting rich in the process and those that are paid to prevent this kind of crime or setting back and just sitting back, and enjoying the good life, and protecting themselves and theirs against food poisoning.

Thinking them selves to be wise they become fools.

Shalom
Huh Duh

Check the health requirements for those who prepare and serve food,here in Arizona if you will work cheap, the job is yours, take a look at some of the fast food hired help, and you will get some ideal of what i'am saying, i'am no doc but i have enough common sense to spot health conditions.

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     Posted 9/16/07 11:02 AM   
bsandersid
 
From  bsandersid  Posts 4  Last 8/5/08
To  Huh Duh      [Msg # 8.4 Message 8.4 replying to 8.3 8.3 ]    

Huh Duh,

What about letting them put hormones and antibiotics in our meat and all the toxic substances in most foods!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And hidden names, particial list, of MSG, darn, I can't find list, one is natural flavorings, oh, wish could find the list!!!
And all the drugs, recalled, many many many!!!!!!!!!! And alot of other things. Why worry about tourists, we are the FDA etc. are killing people themselves, and psstisides, I've looked up so many things, you just wouldn't believe it!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Becky

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     Posted 9/16/07 11:17 AM   
bsandersid
 
From  bsandersid  Posts 4  Last 8/5/08
To  All      [Msg # 8.5 Message 8.5 replying to 8.4 8.4 ]    

PS And out sourcing all the jobs and not taking care of our boarders!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH and on and on.

It's all Criminal............... and I am totally sisabled, trying to survive on $8000. a year, for past 10 years!!!!!!!!!! The cost of living is so high!!!!!!!!!!, and Medicaid, I can't get any help where I live, my state is 49th out of 50 states worst medicaid and keep cutting. Here is where it goes, for example, a Home Health Agency, who hires just anyone off the street!, charges Medicaid over $400 a week and I only get 15 hours a week help!!!!!!!!! Another Agency who has some check on me, maybe a couple hours a week, and a couple of phone calls, gets paid about the same!!!!!!!!!!!!! And Dr.s appts., not even good one's, so rushed, chared $ 350 at some!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Buy the way, to all you working people who are paying my way, I want to thank you VERY MUCH, I DO APPRECIATE YOU!!!!!!

I really get up set if I had that $, I could get REAL help, and other special needs I have to go with out.

I really get upset about our Gov., I know it's a good Country, but not like it used to be, and souldiers are dying for crooks like them:(:(:(

Becky-again

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     Posted 9/17/07 2:55 AM   
Huh Duh
 
From  Huh Duh  Posts 4  Last Aug-12
To  bsandersid      [Msg # 8.6 Message 8.6 replying to 8.5 8.5 ]    (Unread)

Senor.
We have about a hundred million immigrants, some legal and some not legal, but the one's who take our tax dollars, refuse to enforce the immigration laws and keep the border invaders out, the governor of Arizona say's not my responsibility, it's the feds,
and the feds will give you even a lamer excuse, it is not unconstitutional to enter the United States ILLEGALlY.
I guess it is not a crime to violate immigration laws.
To complicated for them to do anything about it, other than realize the personal finanacial gain to the those who cheap labor so they can get a little more of the fiat peso's

They represented themselves, as person's who had the ability to run the country in the best interest of those who are filling up their bank accounts, here and abroad, but after having been elected to public office by the corporate political organizations and their fiat money, and persuading the voters to trust them or at least, replace the characters, in office that don't have the concern nor ability to deliver on the promise's and oaths they take and make.

If you are and illegal, you can get free medical care at the American tax payers expense, if you earn below the poverty level, and your children can become legal citizen's and subsidized housing, and if you and the little one's are hungry you can apply for food stamps, and if you need help with your utility bills.

Need a home financed, many banks will finance your home domicile in a flat second, whether you are legal are illegal.And the law violating business's, that employ these poor people who are duped into selling there selve's short on the value of their labor.
And let's not forget the collection agency for corporate America, and the government they are controlling, who takes monies from these illegals and adds it to the corporate collection funds, under the guise of legal taxs, are tax payer tribute to the power's that have changed America's Constitution, in regards to who controls America's monetary system.

I could go on in this stream to long at the injustice's being perpetrated on the American people, especially those who fought and died ands where mutilated fighting for a country that they believed was their's and there childrens, and their fellow legal taxs paying citizen's.

So i may be of some help and service to you, i will cease from revealing to much about the corporate political gangs that have over thrown the, legal Constitution of America, and present it not as we the people's government, but the corporate political play house for the rockfeller class, and the massive guns that they can command.

Hope your conscience will allow you to, bend the truth quite severly, if you notice i'am picking up the mexican lingo, and who knows with a good tan from sunny Arizona, and a few peso's i may even pass as a mexican and if necessary, get a name change, mabe use the name Poco, are poncho or chico or Jose as the have a good mexican sound and who know's mabe fortune will smile upon you once again in the home of the Brave, Free the and those who have thrown off the shakles and have declared them selves to be native's of the land of Liberty and Justice, that have paid the price for their Liberty, and declare return my birth right, return my heritage and the heritage of my children and my fellow citizens, and put those on notice that are responsible for the criminal acts being perpetrated on the American Citizens, that the Constitution declare's it is the responsibility and duty and necessary oath of citizen ship, to right such wrongs by Constitutional decree.

Not sure? Read this sobering economic warning from Thomas Jefferson:
"If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their money, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them, will deprive the people of their property until their children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered."

"...all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security." ---Declaration of Independence

Have a great day, Eshoo the Meshikhah is still in control we will in his time correct the crime's and evil of the rockfeller class are gangs.

Know God, Know Peace,
No God, No Peace.

Hello, goodbye, Peace.

God is for you, who can overcome you with evil.

NONE
Shalom
Huh Duh

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