Leafy greens sold in stores routinely test positive for pathogens that can cause infections. As a result, retailers often have to recall the contaminated products from stores. And salads are often part of such actions. Ocean Mist Farms Romaine Hearts are the latest type of lettuce to trigger a health alert. According to sample test …
There’s yet another recall over romaine lettuce due to the potential presence of E. coli. The potentially tainted lettuce was shipped to 20 states. No confirmed reports of illness have been recorded yet. Hey, so, remember in 2018 and then again in 2019 when the FDA and CDC issued widespread warnings about the potential for …
Lettuce grown in space proves to be just as nutritious as lettuce grown on Earth, researchers find. Future crewed missions to deep space could grow vegetables en route or at their destination. A paper on the research was published in Frontiers in Plant Science. Visit BGR’s homepage for more stories. A lettuce-growing experiment on the …
Hey, remember back exactly one year ago when the CDC begged everyone to throw away romaine lettuce because it was making people sick? Well wouldn’t you know it, it’s happening again! Over two dozen people have already been hospitalized with severe E. coli infections across 16 states, and the CDC is once again sounding the …
It was just a week ago that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a warning that probably messed up a few Thanksgivings across the country. An E. coli scare forced the CDC to tell everyone to throw out all romaine lettuce no matter what store it came from or where it was grown. …
It’s now been some time since the growing season for romaine lettuce in the Yuma, Arizona, region came to a close, and it was a pretty interesting year for farmers in the area. In May, tainted lettuce claimed dozens of victims, and by the time things began to calm down the bad veggies had sent …
The number of people affected by an outbreak of disease caused by tainted McDonald’s salad has now grown to 395, according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention. 16 individuals have been hospitalized, with cases recorded in 15 states. The illness is caused by the Cyclospora parasite, commonly associated with contamination from feces. The infection takes at …
The entire concept of McDonald’s serving salad has always seemed wrong and unnatural, but now you have a health reason to only ever eat Big Macs: 163 people in 10 states have been made ill by salad contaminated with fecal matter. That’s poop. Your salad has poop on it. It’s not just a mild stomach …
There’s good news and bad news on the E. coli outbreak front this week. Which one do you want first? The good news? Okay! According to the latest report from the Centers For Disease Control, the likelihood of any contaminated lettuce from the Yuma, Arizona, growing region is still sitting on store shelves or being …
The ongoing E. coli contamination crisis linked to romaine lettuce grown and shipped from the Yuma, Arizona, growing region shows no sign of slowing down. The Centers For Disease Control just released a new update to its alert bulletin, and the numbers of infected individuals continues to grow. Since its previous update roughly a week …
