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- How does feces and a parasite get on so much lettuce? I'm assuming it's someone with the parasite shit in the field and it got on some lettuce, but how can like one persons shit get spread to 23,000 people's lettuce? Or is it something else like they are fertilizing the fields with human feces or something?by hattmall
- https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/ires/?Event=99453
https://www.fda.gov/safety/recalls-market-withdrawals-safety...
by toomuchtodo - The article mentioned about California. Based on California public health officials, most of those were traced to recent international travel or visits to taco bell in affected states.
https://www.sfchronicle.com/health/article/california-cyclos...
by pkaye - Does this actually raise questions? I was under the impression that Taco Bell wasn't uniquely responsible for putting contaminated lettuce in the mouths of innocents, they were just more transparent about their supply chain than anyone else was.
But the actual numbers don't surprise me: the majority of bad lettuce went to Wal-Mart, and a significant chunk went to restaurant suppliers like Sysco. People obviously shop at Wal-Mart (and I think many small restaurants shop at Sam's Club, same as Costco), and Sysco alone supplies ingredients to a massive number of restaurants, big and small. So that's a lot of opportunities to eat bad lettuce.
by cryzinger