The MakeMeThinner Support Forum

[petladyinRI]

I'm sure most here have heard, but, just in case,
"If you have bagged spinach in the fridge, toss it. The Food and Drug Administration is warning consumers nationwide not to eat fresh bagged spinach, saying it may be the source of a multistate E. coli outbreak that has killed one person and made dozens sick. "We're advising people not to eat it," said Dr. David Acheson of the FDA."

[Jen]

From Snopes dot com:

In May 2006, the warning quoted above began appearing in inboxes. It is a mixture of two items: an Dole Salad October 2005 warning from the Food and Drug Administration about E. coli found in prepackaged salads vended by Dole in the Minnesota area, and a 30 April 2006 NBC Dateline segment about that October 2005 outbreak and the potential for additional contaminations of similar nature.

Though thrown together from two sources, the e-mailed alert is accurate: E. coli was found in bagged salad mix in October 2005, and the FDA did issue a nationwide consumer alert about it. Dole Food Company recalled the implicated salad products, but even so 26 people who had eaten the contaminated greens became ill, with eight having to be hospitalized and one child developing a severe complication called hemolytic-uremic syndrome (in which red blood cells are destroyed and kidneys fail).

[petladyinRI]

This is totally current and unrelated to the Dole item you mention in Snopes.com. Please check any news source, TV, cnn.com, etc. It is all over the news and the papers today.

[Prancer]

I read about it at CNN this morning too.

[Jen]

Sorry, I assumed it was just the older occurance making the rounds in email again, my mistake.

Thanks for the warning.

[DogMa]

Yeah, this is legit. It's killed one person and sickened people in eight states. The stores here are all pulling it from their shelves for now.

[bdg]

add 12 more states. It is up to 20 or more states and 90+ people last I heard.

[DogMa]

Yeah, our story for the morning says 19 states and more than 100 people. But they think they know where the bad spinach came from.

The bad news is it can take two to nine days to develop symptoms after eating the spinach. So I hope everyone here is OK (I had my last bagged spinach three or four days ago, but mine was cooked).

[BerkshireGrl]

I just tossed my bag of Dole Baby Spinach -- thanks for the tip!

I also emailed all my friends First I heard of it was here!

[Sojourner]

The bad news is it can take two to nine days to develop symptoms after eating the spinach.

Ay Caramba!! I had raw spinach (bagged) two days ago.
Pleaseohpleaseohplease, I do not want to be sick.
I just got rid of the hives, I sure don't want to battle E. coli now.
Nope. That's it. I've made up my mind. I will NOT be affected.
End of story.
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[bdg]

Thankfully we haven't had bagged spinach in a while. Kinda scary with all of our vegetable dependance.