On Jan 1, 2012, at 6:12 AM, Mugsy Lunsford wrote: > Hey Bruce, > > Sad to see this, we have enough trouble getting the kids to eat their veggies > http://www.wtvr.com/news/us--stores-pull-lettuce-20111230,0,7044475.story > > pretty daggone weird to me that they pull all the lettuce because of one > field next to theirs, wouldn't it make more sense to send out teams and test > the lettuce in situ? >
Not if the salmonella was found after harvest...also this is what happens when you drown gummint in the bathtub. The FDA's research arm, the folks who would do things like develop these kinds of field tests, has been steadily defunded over the decades and their inspector ranks slashed. And paying off the occasional lawsuit and dealing with the costs of recalls is cheaper than doing it right in the first place, so the agro-industrial complex has no incentive to fix things themselves, not when there are profits to be made! > One would hope that all lettuce is thoroughly washed before being sold, I > mean, they do wash it, right? Well whole head lettuce can't really be washed thoroughly without breaking up the head. wash it thoroughly and count on your immune system... -- Bruce Johnson "Wherever you go, there you are" B. Banzai, PhD -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "StrataList-OT" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/stratalist-ot?hl=en.
