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P.C.

Dec 07 06 07:41
Is anybody else baffled over the amount of contaminated foods recently ?

    After Taco Bell traced a growing E. coli outbreak to green onions at its restaurants yesterday morning, government investigators began an intensive search to identify the source of the contamination. The total number of cases in three Northeastern states swelled to 99, implicating several additional restaurants and a second food distributor, who said the onions came from a California farm.

 Taco Bell officials said early yesterday that their preliminary tests had traced the E. coli to three samples of green onions, which the restaurant chain sprinkles on many of its menu items. In what the company president, Greg Creed, called "an abundance of caution," Taco Bell removed green onions from its 5,800 outlets across the United States.

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Future Canadian

#1
Dec 07 06 08:03
Somethin' funky with fertilizer, I'm guessin'. I wouldn't be suprised if it really came down to some farming corporation trying to squeeze some extra profit by cutting corners in the washing/cleaning process.
I just ordered a bag of green onions at work. I'm sure they'll go bad before they get used up. Folks are still just warming up to spinach again, but it's moving real slow - I've got a lonesome back-up bag of it in the cooler that'll be going off soon, no one's ordering it.
 
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CK

#2
Dec 07 06 08:06
What there also cantelope and carrot juice scares too?

I am surprised about Taco Bell. I thought they never really served "food", so how can their food be contaminated? (sorry, just an anti-fast food person here).

P.C.

#3
Dec 07 06 08:16
I've never been to a Taco Bell.  I'm not a big fast food person either, but every once in a while, I've GOT to have a legendary White Spot burger.  The simplest burger around, but the yummiest.  And their fries are second to none.
Sir Isaac Newton invented the swinging door....for the convenience of his cat.

CK

#4
Dec 07 06 08:52
P.C. wrote:
 I've never been to a Taco Bell.  I'm not a big fast food person either, but every once in a while, I've GOT to have a legendary White Spot burger.  The simplest burger around, but the yummiest.  And their fries are second to none.[/DIV]
 White spot and those kind of places are a little different than a McDonalds drive through or *shudders* KFC!

I haven't been to White Spot in a looong time. Their burgers are decent for sure!

Lise

#5
Dec 07 06 08:57
I bet it's the companies that are taking short cuts in order to mass produce their products. As a result, we consumers are paying the price.
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grubby hands

#6
Dec 07 06 03:46
Lise wrote:
I bet it's the companies that are taking short cuts in order to mass produce their products. As a result, we consumers are paying the price.


 E. Coli, in this case, was just as likely spread by a worker, cutting corners by not washing his hands after taking a crap, then touching the green onions as he chops them.  Ever work in a food joint? I rest my case.
 

P.C.

#7
Dec 07 06 08:48
[FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #dfffbf"]A Suffolk County laboratory later confirmed E. coli in three of four green onions taken from a previously unopened package at one of the restaurants, "suggesting that it was already contaminated before it arrived,"[/FONT] said Suffolk's acting health commissioner, Dr. David G. Graham. County officials retrieved the green onions from a Taco Bell in Deer Park after the franchise identified them as the probable cause of the outbreak.

  I don't think that's the case, grubby hands.  There's just something odd about the amout of incidents of 'tainted' food.
Sir Isaac Newton invented the swinging door....for the convenience of his cat.

weird al

#8
Dec 07 06 08:51
I'm not a fan of the damn things. They're ideally shaped to harbor contaminants.

kingy

#9
Dec 11 06 11:25
[FONT size=2]The Canadian Food Inspection Agency warned the public not to consume some Queen Victoria brand fresh spinach, as it may be contaminated with salmonella.[/FONT]

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[FONT size=2]add another food to the list of do not eat!![/FONT]
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Russ

#10
Dec 11 06 12:29
You know, every time i hear salmonella I think of salmon, then fish, then get all confused as how to how something ie spinach can get fishy.

  Then it takes me a few seconds to get unmuddled and get what they mean.
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Lise

#11
Dec 11 06 12:34
At one point, I've heard ice cream from McDonalds. Apparently the ice maker wasn't cold enough to kill the bugs.
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Ally

#12
Dec 11 06 01:14
I haven't bought bagged spinach now in ages.  We're eating a greens mix that has no spinach on it.  The bag even has a sticker that says no spinach.
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kitten

#13
Dec 11 06 04:09
Wouldn't it save time if they just put out a list of what you still CAN eat?
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Russ

#14
Dec 11 06 04:10
I think it would change on a day to day basis kitten.
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