Bagged Spinach? -- WARNING -- E. Coli alert!
 

Just in case anyone missed it... I just found out from another board. See 3FC thread here:

http://www.3fatchicks.com/forum/show...hlight=spinach

This is so scarey. :fr:

*Also, the spinach was distributed to Canada & Mexico, according to the FDA.

It's not just a specific brand, but many made by Natural Selection Foods, LLC... and maybe other companies.

From the FDA page:

FDA continues to investigate whether other companies and brands are involved.

Natural Selection Foods, LLC brands include: Natural Selection Foods, Pride of San Juan, Earthbound Farm, Bellissima, Dole, Rave Spinach, Emeril, Sysco, O Organic, Fresh Point, River Ranch, Superior, Nature’s Basket, Pro-Mark, Compliments, Trader Joe’s, Ready Pac, Jansal Valley, Cheney Brothers, Coastline, D’Arrigo Brothers, Green Harvest, Mann, Mills Family Farm, Pro*Act, Premium Fresh, Snoboy, The Farmer’s Market, Tanimura & Antle, President’s Choice, Cross Valley, and Riverside Farms. These products include spinach and any salad with spinach in a blend, both retail and food service products. Products that do not contain spinach are not part of this recall.

Last night I attended a wedding reception and the first course of the dinner was spinach salad. All of us at the table looked at each other nervously and made a few jokes, but most of us decided to go ahead and eat it anyway, figuring there's no way a restaurant would have bought bagged spinach.

About an hour after going to bed, I started to feel that feeling, sort of like an acid-reflux type of feeling. I sat up and was very dizzy. Then my body just jolted and I had to RUN to the bathroom, where I spent a lot of the rest of the night in feverish chills, spilling out everything that was ever in my system. (I kept telling my fiance - I better have lost some weight! haha)

But in all seriousness, it has continued into this morning (although less frequent since i have nothing left in my system) and I have been running a low-grade fever. Luckily I haven't seen any blood or anything, so I'm not going to drag myself to an ER. Let me tell you though - if this isn't e-coli from that spinach, it's DAMN coincidental. At many points during the night last night I just wanted to die on the bathroom floor and be over with it.

DO NOT EAT SPINACH!!!!

:(

Yeah, we've got cases of it here in our county. I'm in Ohio. Funny, I almost bought a bag of spinach the other day (before I ever heard the news) and for some reason decided against it. I'm a little leery of those bags salads, anyway. There was an outbreak of E. Coli from the Dole bagged salad mixes as well.

I don't buy those things anymore. I won't be buying the spinach anymore, either.

Yeah, but I read somewhere that it is also being found in "bulk spinach for the food service industry" which would lead me to believe not even restaurants are safe at this point. I don't know that for a fact but it was in our local paper.

I don't know how I'll ever manage to look at another salad again.

I am fortunate enough to have not bought Spinach last week. *Whew!*

One of my co-workers made spinach dip for a party we were attending. She ate a bunch the night before, but by the next day the news was out and she had to throw it all away.

She had made it from frozen Spinach, so I doubt it was contaminated. Still, it's better to be safe than sorry. Besides, I'm pretty sure everyone would have been too paranoid to eat it.

Me either.

Well I would. Knowing what's happening, the fatalness of it, and having such a coincidence, I'd go. It's more than likely just your nerves built up over eating it and caused this. But I'd rather have a positive in this case than a more than likely.

I definitely know it wasn't my nerves that did this - I've had a nervous stomach before and a fever, chills, and water shooting out of my butt have never been part of that ;) (sorry to be graphic, hehe)

But actually, I do wonder if it was something else I ate that gave me the food poisoning. From what I've been reading about symptoms of E Coli, it takes 3-7 days for it to grow in your system to cause anything. Maybe that isn't the same with this current spinach strain that's spreading, I don't know, but my symptoms started within about 5-6 hours.

I'm finally feeling better, now 2 days later. I've been drinking gatorade like there's no tomorrow. They really need sugarfree gatorade.