Spinach. =/?

Question

What exactly is wrong with spinach now?

How did they figure out something is wrong with it?

Answer 1

it's all over the news. the major distributor of fresh spinach has contaminated spinach, which has been recalled and wich you are advised not to eat. somehow their spinach has been contaminated by E Coli. that's a bad bug. (think poop). it's inside the spinach so it doesn't wash off. E Coli can make you real sick, or it can kill you.

Answer 2

Water contaminated , probably by wastewater, was sprayed on the spinach fields. The spinach has a nice vascular system, like all plants and took the e. coli wastewater into all the roots and cells. that is why it can not be washed. E. coli is natural bacteria in our guts, and cows guts, but that is where it belongs, not coming in thru the mouth. cooking to 160 degrees kills the bacteria. Hamburger sometimes has e.coli also, because of the slaughtering process, some intestinal waste gets into the ground beef. That is why it is said you should cook a burger to medium -well... that is 160 degrees also.
When you can't have something, you want it more, and boy, am I craving spinach!!
They traced it this way: when the sick people went to their Dr. they were asked what they had eaten. Some refregerators were gone through. ONe fridge in the midwest had the contaminated spinach, in it's bag, in it. the disease specialists were able to track the bag to a specific farm, finding the exact source of the contamination... one farm. THAT was the most interesting part of this whole story for me, in light of the tragedy, that there are people smart enough in this country to FIND the source of the outbreak...
I WANT A SPINACH SALAD NOW!!!!

EDIT: unfortunately, the distributor was the organic guys, earthbound farms. too bad for the bad publicity! you just never know,

Answer 3

The news has said that the spinach is affected by E. coli, which is a deadly bacteria. There have been a few deaths reported, and over a hundred people have gotten sick. They're supposed to put spinach back on the market sometime soon.

Answer 4

well recently i read in the news that there was an e-coli outbreak. some how it was in the raw/fresh spinach. some people have been sick others have died. so there was a recall in all the fresh/raw spinach. so right now they are saying do not eat it. most of the cases came out of califournia.

Answer 5

Basically, it's covered in cow sh*t. E-coli.

Thanks to your governments poor drainage systems or lack of standards regarding farming, raw sewage (or manure) overflows into rivers and streams (in farm country cow crap finds it's way into streams and well waters, etc.) so basically that is what happened here...the crappy flood waters overflowed into the spinach fields...so you can literally eat sh*t and die! LOL It happens even in big cities after heavy rains that the catch basins (to catch the extra water from rains) overflow and take all the untreated water with it right back into the lake. That is why some lakes around big cities are not safe to swim in as they have high levels of bacteria.

And no, don't believe it, NO spinach is safe to eat, bagged or not bagged and they simply remove it from bags to sell it fresh in the produce aisles and it all comes from the same place! 75 percent of North America's spinach came from the affected area and there is no way to tell which. If you want to take a chance...go ahead! It's your life.

Answer 6

A few days ago on the knews that three kids got sick from milk,I don't remember which dairy company the milk came from though.

Answer 7

e-coli. but supposedly in only the bagged spinach. fresh spinach and canned or frozen spinach is ok.

Answer 8

supposedly some brands may have e.coli in it which isn't safe to eat.

Answer 9

ecoli. Don't eat it.. All of the stores are removing it.

Answer 10

i dont no but i did hear that too on the radio!!!