Bagged lettuce may cause
s food poisoning. Read this Atlantic article by Nicholas Florko about one single product you can stop buying.
When you think of food poisoning, perhaps what first comes to mind is undercooked chicken, spoiled milk, or oysters. ..
But don’t overlook your vegetable crisper. In terms of foodborne illness, leafy greens stand alone. In 2022, they were identified as the cause of five separate multistate foodborne-illness outbreaks, more than any other food. Romaine lettuce has a particularly bad reputation, and for good reason. In 2018, tainted romaine killed five people and induced kidney failure in another 27. Last year, an E. coli outbreak tied to—you guessed it—romaine sent 36 people to the hospital across 15 states. Perhaps ironically, the bags of shredded lettuce that promise to be pre-washed and ready to eat are riskier than whole heads of romaine.
See the whole article on The Atlantic Daily or the most recent Atlantic Magazine. . It is mostly American statistics, but Canada isn’t that far behind. …
