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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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.
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).
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.
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!
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.
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.
[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.
I'm not a fan of the damn things. They're ideally shaped to harbor contaminants.
[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]
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.
At one point, I've heard ice cream from McDonalds. Apparently the ice maker wasn't cold enough to kill the bugs.
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.
Wouldn't it save time if they just put out a list of what you still CAN eat?
I think it would change on a day to day basis kitten.
Shrinking each time, no doubt.
Yes, I mean. I hear from my mother that before when she was younger that her not smoking was irregular, and was used and recommended by many to help lose weight for women.... now look.
But have you seen the reports that obesity is on the rise?
Yes, I look at one too! *sigh* Im looking forward to going back to sea to work so I can get back to a normal look again.
Its mostly amongst the younger children right now isnt it?
It is being studied more in young children, but the obesity increase extends to all ages.
That makes sence.. start at the bottom and work their way up. It would make sense that if you do a survey of only one sample, that the sample would look bad before the rest does it not?
Did you know that the expensive women's clothing stores deliberately put smaller sizes on the labels, so that women will think they are thinner?
Actually I heard something to that effect amazingly enough. I dont know from where or why I would remember that obviously life changing fact.
Wait. I do remember, I heard it from one of my old friends whom worked at La Senza as a regional manager or something like that. She was complaining about how the womens sizes vary from company to company, because of all the complaints they were getting.
It really does boost sales though. Illusion is a wonderful thing!
Dont they have some sort of illusions on that santa clause train ride at Stanley Park?
My gf and I are thinking about that.
I don't know. I've never been on it.