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.

*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.