e-coli outbreak

[siduri]

Originally Posted by shroomgirl

Due to the use of animal waste as fertilizer on some crops and the pursuant run-off(probably amongst other factors),
human waste too.....I've got a farmer friend that posts signs for her workers telling them to use the indoor bathroom facilities, "no pooping in the fields"

That's good. But not always the case - remember the case of the contaminated strawberries some years ago? those workers didn't HAVE bathrooms, if i recall.

[Erik]

A friend of mine was catering a function in which the chef served a salad containing spinach from a local grower. At the end of the service all 150+ plates had their salads left untouched.

[AprilB]

It's just been disclosed that with all of the problems we in the US have had with e-coli, all of the packaged spinach shipped outside of the States to Canada or elsewhere hasn't seen any incidents of e-coli.

It sounds pretty suspect to me.

April