can you kill bacteria by boiling in water? I mean, seriously, E coli is gram positive right? so it should be killed easily..... i dont know
anyway, how many people really die because of this? do you eat spinach (often)?
2006-09-15 15:15:34 · 17 answers · asked by cool nerd 4 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
it isn't a rumor- it is gram negative bacteria - enough heat will kill it, but they don't want people to take the risk.
2006-09-15 15:23:43 · answer #1 · answered by ♥michele♥ 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, I've heard about it and the FDA says it has linked the E. coli outbreak from bagged, pre-washed spinach to only one place so far: a large, organic foods supplier in California
In the United States, an estimated 73,000 cases of e. coli infection and 61 deaths occur each year, the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention report.
Most e .coli illness comes from eating contaminated, undercooked ground beef, a CDC fact sheet said. Drinking raw milk, swimming in sewage-contaminated water or drinking it, or person-to-person contact in families and child care centres can cause infection.
2006-09-15 22:20:05 · answer #2 · answered by pinkvariety 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, e-coli will die if the spinach is cooked, but SO many people eat fresh spinach salad. That's where the problem is coming in. We eat spinach quite often at my house,....but we also eat a lot of salads in general.
2006-09-15 22:17:56 · answer #3 · answered by Lisa E 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
These people were eating the spinach in a salad. I'm sure it wasn't cooked. I saw a little girl on TV who was recovering. There is a girl in our town that is in the hospital. Her mother won't say what store the raw spinach was from. I know I'm not eating any.
2006-09-15 22:21:27 · answer #4 · answered by robee 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The CDC recommends, "Wash fruits and vegetables thoroughly, especially those that will not be cooked. " By the way Escherichia coli is gram negative. There has been one death reported and over 100 who have become ill. And yes I do eat spinach often.(I yam what I yam and that's all that I yam ARGH, ARGH, ARGH)
2006-09-15 22:31:50 · answer #5 · answered by slichick 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I wouldn't be shocked to learn that someone in the meat industry tainted the spinach in order to get people to eat more meat. The meat industry will now probably assert: "If you can't get your iron from spinach, then you must eat beef!" (which is nonsense, but that's besides the point)
2006-09-20 10:09:24 · answer #6 · answered by Arthur B 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It isn't a rumor. Anyway, lots and lots of people get seriously ill from E coli
2006-09-15 22:17:31 · answer #7 · answered by couriousk 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Throw your spinach away...you don' want the runs do you? Just eat lettuce for a while till this all blows over.
2006-09-15 22:16:56 · answer #8 · answered by Lil Miss Answershine 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Take a break from spinach
2006-09-15 22:30:40 · answer #9 · answered by Salsa 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, they just annouced it on the TV not to buy packaged spinach.
2006-09-15 22:17:30 · answer #10 · answered by CLARABELLE 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋