What do ya'll think about that Spinch and ecoli thing?

Question

So what do you think of ecoli being in Spinch?
How does it grow there?
i mean i don't understand why no one watched out for this before? Can you see ecoli on Spinich?
Thanks for all your help!

Answer 1

It would appear that the processing plant did a poor job of cleaning the product before packaging. The CDC (US) and the CFIA in Canada both monitor food quality and concerns. Produce has always been of concern. Bean and Alfalfa sprouts are the biggest problems for food contamination. That is why it is so important to properly wash all fruits and vegetables before consumption..even if it is a bagged " pre-washed" product. It only takes 3 E Coli cells to make someone sick. E Coli cells double every twenty minutes. People need to take food safety more seriously.

Answer 2

No ecoli is not visible to the human eye. It can't be washed off either apparently. It lives in the stomachs and intestines of cows and comes from contamination from manure. It may have been through irrigation systems.
This is a really scary thing, one person has died and over 100 others have been hospitalized because of it.
My family and I had spinach salad with dinner last night and I am so worried. I thought washing bagged salad would take care of any bacteria, but apparently the ecoli doesn't get washed off....
I threw away the rest of the bag and another one I had in the fridge after hearing about the recall. I hope we get the all clear soon, because we eat a lot of spinach!

Answer 3

It's in and on a lot of foods we eat..People are put in hospital' s every day and some die...This is not new ...They are just now bringing it out to the public....MORE ! ... Ice machine at Stores,Restaurants etc. are breeding grounds for Ecoli . They have ran tests ..The toilet water in bathrooms were cleaner than the ice in ice machines and ecoli levels were SKY HIGH ! Think before you order that next soda ......Thanks

Answer 4

no you can't see it.. e. coli is bacteria, it's microscopic.
actually most e.coli is harmless (it is a very common bacteria in the gut of healthy people), only a few strains are dangerous to you because they produce toxins. but you don't want to take a a chance so that's why you should cook your hamburger all the way to kill the e.coli that might be in there. meat I understand but i don't know how the E.coli got into the spinach. i'm going to be eating cooked vegetables for a while instead of raw until they figure this thing out.

Answer 5

you just have to wash the vegetables more thoroughly the ecoli is on the cow manure it would be impossible for the spinach to grow ecoli. vagatarian dodn't worry about ecoli. Eat organic vegetables and don't worry about the manure it's been grown in.

Answer 6

I thought ecoli was only a problem with meat. Who knew? I guess I'm not very well informed.

Answer 7

No you cannot see E. coli on spinach. It is a microscopic bacterium. E. coli lives in farm animals' digestive tracts, and produce typically is contaminated by exposure to animal fecal waste. Washing produce does not always remove the bacteria and even cooking it is sometimes not safe. This is because many bacteria produce toxins.

Answer 8

It appears that this was the result of the fertilizers used on a particular "organic" growers crop. It comes from cow crap and yes, people have watched out for this, but there's too much food moving in too many places to catch every piece of cow crap in every bag of spinich.

Guess the benefits of going organic don't really pay off in the end every time.

Answer 9

E. Coli is bacteria found in the digestive system of warm-blooded animals. It can contaminate food by fertilizer (cow manure and such) or poor hygiene of handlers (not washing hands after going poopy). There was a case of a school in Michigan getting E.Coli tainted strawberries in their lunchroom...same thing. Wash your produce well. That's all there is to it.

Answer 10

No can not see it, according to reports, came from the manure used. From an organic farm,N. Calif, just never no!!