Avoid Romaine Lettuce for Now, Consumer Reports Says
Posted: Thu Jan 04, 2018 7:05 am
Consumer Reports - 1/3/2018 - Trisha Calvo - Over the past seven weeks, 58 people in the U.S. and Canada have become ill from a dangerous strain of E. coli bacteria, likely from eating romaine lettuce. In the U.S., the infections have occurred in 13 states (California, Connecticut, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Vermont, and Washington state). Five people in the U.S. have been hospitalized and one has died, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). There has also been one death in Canada. Read more @ https://www.consumerreports.org/food-sa ... e-for-now/