Heads up: Distributor Recalls Bagged, Baby Carrots

[The Straight Story]

Distributor Recalls Bagged, Baby Carrots

The state public health department is warning consumers not to eat bagged, fresh baby carrots distributed to Trader Joe’s stores and Kroger/Ralphs by the Los Angeles Salad Company. The carrots may be contaminated with Shigella bacteria.

Food contaminated with Shigella may not look or smell spoiled. Individuals infected with Shigellosis may develop diarrhea, fever and stomach cramps starting a day or two after exposure. The diarrhea may be bloody. The infection usually lasts from five to seven days. The symptoms can become severe and require hospitalization for some individuals, especially young children and the elderly.

The California Department of Public Health urges individuals who have consumed the carrots and have any of the above symptoms should contact their health care provider immediately.

The recalled bagged baby carrots have sell by dates of August 16, 2007, and earlier. The carrots were imported from Mexico. The product was distributed to California, Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Michigan, Mississippi, New Mexico, Nevada, Tennessee, Washington and Canada.

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[Ellen Forradalom]

1. oh GREAT I JUST polished off a bag of TJs carrots

Moments before reading this.

Fishes bag out of trash.....Best if used by 09/08/2007....I think I'm okay.

Jeez. Bon appetit.

[Bitwit1234]

2. This administration has cut inspectors allowed third world countries

to supply our food. HOW DAMN MUCH MONEY IS BUSH AND HIS HENCHMEN RAKING IN FOR THESE ACTIONS. Must be a heck of a lot or they wouldn't be continuing it.

[kestrel91316]

3. I'll buy my carrots locally, thank you. Whole foods has country and

state of origin on all their produce.

FYI, Shigella is a POOP bacterium. Mexicans with diarrhea working in the fields without portapotties........

http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/~mow/chap19.html

[notadmblnd]

4. or just using human feces as fertilizer

[SmokingJacket]

8. Or anyone not washing their hands in the processing warehouse.

I worked in a vegetable warehouse once -- dear God in heaven, what a horrible job. Once I cut my hand on the outdated, rusty machinery and bled all over the produce. But too bad, you can't get off the line unless you want to get fired...

Hate to say it, but food needs to be more expensive... so that we can have sanitary and fair working conditions all along the entire food pipeline. And it's a long one, for most food.

[Deja Q]

13. Most likely correct.

Fertilizer is fertilizer and helps the cycle of life. Unfortunately, cleanliness is necessary to prolong quality of life and the lack of hand washing, or insufficient washing of the carrots led to this.

But does food need to be more expensive? The people who hire the illegal "guest workers" to collect the food are the ones engaged in book cooking. Why can't they pay the penalty and take it as a penalty rather than putting the fees into the prices everybody has to pay for?

[Elidor]

5. At last! A recall I'm safe from!

I hate carrots. But that's a minor thing.

Our food is not safe.

[SmokingJacket]

6. I swear, half the time I buy those things in the bag they're slimy.

Sitting around in a plastic bag is bad for vegetables, I've come to realize...

[AspenRose]

7. I am getting so sick of this crap

I'm 36 weeks pregnant and have a two year old, for pete's sake. We're trying to eat healthy. Can't we eat ANYTHING without worrying about it??? :mad: :nuke:


I really don't need this....:banghead:

[pitohui]

9. we're going back to a time when food will have to be cooked to be safe

not sure that's good enough for shigella, i *think* it is, the problem w. baby carrots is many eat them raw -- and raw food is becoming unsafe in the * era

[-..__...]

10. Oh noes!

[Raksha]

11. Damn...I buy bagged baby carrots ALL the time!

I like to microwave them and then mix them with other fresh and frozen vegetables. I don't think I have any of this particular batch, but thanks for the heads-up.

[Nay]

12. Shit! I just ate a bag of baby carrots at lunch! Goddammit. I'm getting

tired of this. Gotta go check the bag to see if it's from LA Salad.