The CDC reports another outbreak of E. coli disease linked to romaine lettuce and says some of the cases have been in Massachusetts.
- Consumers who have any type of romaine lettuce in their home should not eat it and should throw it away, even if some of it was eaten and no one has gotten sick.
- This advice includes all types or uses of romaine lettuce, such as whole heads of romaine, hearts of romaine, and bags and boxes of precut lettuce and salad mixes that contain romaine, including baby romaine, spring mix, and Caesar salad.
- If you do not know if the lettuce is romaine or whether a salad mix contains romaine, do not eat it and throw it away.
- Wash and sanitize drawers or shelves in refrigerators where romaine was stored.
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Salad
By cybah
Tue, 11/20/2018 - 5:50pm
Just when you thought it was safe to eat salad.......
Lettuce Romaine Calm!
By b from Ros
Tue, 11/20/2018 - 7:08pm
Sorry not sorry.
(But yah this is a serious issue...)
We might be seeing the fall...
By b from Ros
Tue, 11/20/2018 - 7:10pm
Of the Romaine Empire...
Et tu
By SwirlyGrrl
Tue, 11/20/2018 - 7:25pm
Caesar salad?
Compost in Cambridge
By Ari O
Tue, 11/20/2018 - 6:19pm
If you have curbside.
Not A Good Idea
By BlackKat
Tue, 11/20/2018 - 7:23pm
Using infected material as compost will spread the bacteria to anything grown in such.
When done properly ,
By Sonicyouth
Tue, 11/20/2018 - 7:50pm
When done properly , composting kills pathogens. Cambridge uses an incinerator anyways , they don’t turn good waste into soil like bootstrap , black earth, etc
Manure
By SwirlyGrrl
Tue, 11/20/2018 - 7:53pm
Manure is composted to make it safe for fertilizing food crops.
Manure comes from cows, which are famous for their e coli capacity.
It isn't that simple.
Bottom line: you probably don't want it in your personal compost, which may not get hot enough to kill it all off. However, larger commercial composting operations should do the trick (and municipal compost usually ends up on flower beds and turf fields anyway).
Some helpful info: http://extension.colostate.edu/topic-areas/nutriti...
Just throw it out for God's sake...
By anon
Tue, 11/20/2018 - 9:06pm
I am as environmentally-minded as the next person, but people get so excessive. Not every last scrap of a batch of poisonous lettuce needs to be composted, recycled, detoxified or otherwise reused. The world still wags.
Yup.
By mplo
Wed, 11/21/2018 - 10:50am
When in doubt, throw it out.
Scientifically Correct information
By anon
Wed, 11/21/2018 - 12:47pm
You missed the point. Black Kat was spreading scientifically incorrect misinformation. The reply provided properly scientific information.
Sure, throw it out if you want ... but don't spread misinformation.
that was interesting.
By cinnamngrl
Wed, 11/21/2018 - 1:50pm
I thought those black compost rotating barrels were just for speeding up the process. I knew you need heat to sanitize soil, but I thought it was just to keep weeds and fungus out. Are we both CSU alumni?
Not CSU
By SwirlyGrrl
Wed, 11/21/2018 - 7:09pm
MIT and UML. I just thought that particular bit of extension info was well written and clearly explained, so I linked it.
I had an intern from CSU - great guy! I would have hired him permanently but the US Park Service scooped him up!
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