Monday, October 09, 2006

E. coli in lettuce

Lettuce recall sunday same place where the spinach come from. The lettuce scare comes amid other federal warnings that some brands of spinach, bottled carrot juice, and recent shipments of beef could cause grave health risks. these include paralysis, respitory failure and death. The executives ordered the recall after discovering that irrigation water may have been contaminated with E. coli. the recalled lettuce was packaged as "Green leaf 24 count, waxed carton" and " Green leaf 18 count, cellophanesleeve, returnable carton". Packaging is stamped with lot code 6SL0024. Also friday Iowa announced recalling 5,200 lbs of beef suspected of E. coli. The number on the beef recall is 2424. So beware consumers. bye for now

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