Do NOT eat bagged spinach until further notice!

[BarnGoddess]

I read that boiling the spinach can kill the bacteria of the E-coli.

I love fresh spinach in salads, but I don't like the cooked spinach. Yuck!!
I am no Pop-eye!!

At this time, I wouldn't eat any spinach at all. I'm sure the cans and maybe even the frozen kind are probably OK. I heard one one of the news alerts about the spinach, that you shouldn't try to boil it, just throw it away or take it back to the store.

The BarnGod grabbed some mixed salad greens (no spinach) at the store last night. LOL, I put it right back on the shelf. Told him he's just do without for a little while. I'm taking no chances. I don't want to worry about lettuce being the next recall, maybe from the same farm. He's already broken his ankle badly this year, then after a large bale of hay fell on him, had a hip replacement. No more hospitals for us.

 

[Marthatex]

I discovered the huge plastic box of fresh salad greens I just bought is Earthbound Farms, one of the brands recalled. It wasn't spinach, but had some spinach in it, so I threw it all out.

I'm going to wait until hopefully all the lettuce companies growing in this valley will CLEAN UP THEIR ACT, literally.

 

[poco]

I guess they are saying now not to eat any spinach,pre-packaged or fresh.

I'm with you angelwngs,I bought the packaged salad for a long while,but stopped about six months or so ago,for the same reasons you are giving. They started to smell kind of funky,also the greens were getting soft and soggy pretty fast.

I have a question... the news gave the symptoms we should be aware of the effects of e.coli,but when do they occur? Right away,a few hours later,or can it be something like two or three days before you feel symptoms? Anyone know?

I have heard that symptoms can appear from a few hours after eating the infected spinach to up two weeks.......

 

[capps]

Thanks poco ... I also just heard on the news that it's from 2 to 10 days.

Like many here,I think I will stay away from all leafy greens for a little while. I guess I'll just have to replace it with cookies,pudding,potato chips ......

 

[Liz]

I read that boiling the spinach can kill the bacteria of the E-coli.

I love fresh spinach in salads, but I don't like the cooked spinach. Yuck!!
I am no Pop-eye!!

I love it in salads and fresh cooked.

I heard that the advice is to not boil it. It's to NOT eat it, period. Be smart and just throw it all away, fresh packaged or fresh style spinach your your grocer's produce section. It's just not worth the risk.

 

[englishleigh]

I love it in salads and fresh cooked.

I heard that the advice is to not boil it. It's to NOT eat it, period. Be smart and just throw it all away, fresh packaged or fresh style spinach your your grocer's produce section. It's just not worth the risk.

Agreed. I personally have gone off all leafy greens. Hubby and I have a grilled steak, baked potato and salad every Sat. night but this past weekend we skipped the salad. We just didn't even want any lettuce with all this going on. Hubby has had severe salmonella poisoning before and any mention of e.Coli, salmonella, etc. tends to make him feel sick.

 

[meowy]

I just bought extra cucumber, broccoli, and cauliflour to dice up and make a salad with.

The produce section was totally picked over. Then there was the bagged salad section, they spread the bags/boxes of lettuce around to make it look presentable. People were making wide arcs around it to not even walk by it haha

The heads of lettuce, just sitting there too

 

[PaperDoll]

Gosh you guys, you are scaring me.. hehe I eat a lot of salads and I was going to make some for dinner tonight.. Fresh of course.. I'm hoping the lettuce is ok to eat.. Maybe I'll test it on hubby first...

 

[poco]

Well, I'm gonna GO FOR IT - heating my spinach pie right now - no cases reported in Florida anyway....... (watch there be one, lol ---> me).

 

[scandi]

Oh Poco, You could eat it with some of your famous Pickled Possum. That would probably kill any bacteria in the spinach!

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Scandi

 

[bakerprune64]

http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=nation_world&id=4578532

With that market disappearing in a matter of days, some valley farmers were already writing off their spinach crops, plowing the fields under and preparing to plant broccoli, cauliflower and cabbage.





:waitasec: IF the spinach was contaminated in the ground, wouldn't it be safe to assume that anything else planted there would also be contaminated?? That is if we assume that it was in fact contamintated from the ground.

 

[Juliana]

Just heard on the news that a toddler has died of e coli thought (by the family) to be from bagged spinach. I'll go look for a link. What a shame.

Here's the link:

http://www.statejournal.com/story.cfm?func=viewstory&storyid=14253

 

[chicoliving]

Investigators looking for the source of spinach tainted with E.coli may have a break.

A laboratory in New Mexico has isolated E.coli from an opened package of spinach. It was found in the refrigerator of a person who became sick
after eating it. Tests have matched it the same strain of E.coli in the outbreak that's now spread to 23 states.

more at link
http://www.news10.net/storyfull2.aspx?storyid=20115

 

[PaperDoll]

Hey, I think we can eat spinach again.. There was spinach in the stores when I went shopping yesterday.. However, I'm still hesitant to eat any

 

[Pandora]

My grandfather was found on Monday morning on the floor of his bathroom after falling in the middle of the night. He didn't want to use his "medic alert" button until he was sure he couldn't get up himself. The hospital thought he was weak from a kidney infection, but further tests showed e-coli. They haven't said whether it's this strain or not, but they were bringing in a heart specialist from Des Moines. His doctor said that with his heart murmur, if the e-coli made it that far, it would kill him. Soooo, I'm not sure we're out of the "woods" yet with this e-coli scare. He'd been sick for awhile. (He's 91 and afraid someone will put him in a nursing home.) He eats Meals On Wheels and lots of Dinty Moore Beef Stew. They're trying to track the source of the infection now.