Are you not a salad eater? I subbed baby field greens and spinach for the duration, but we're back to eating romaine.

Romaine that did not grow in Arizona is safe now. They don't sell Arizona romaine these days because they couldn't find out the cause. But if you bought it in the past three weeks, it should be safe since stores are not stocking Arizona romaine.

It was the romaine from Yuma AZ. Their season for romaine has passed and your romaine should be from somewhere else. Can you check with the grocery store to see where it came from?

Not worth my time to go through what it might take to get someone on the phone who actually knows where it came from. Will just dump it I guess.

Look at this map. If you click on Yuma, you'll see they only grow in Jan-Feb-Mar. Yours couldn't of come from there.

https://www.oceanmist.com/growing-regions

ETA: This is just one company that grows produce, but they all would have to have the same conditions.

Live in Arizona, but I get organic romaine grown in California. Non organic at my store is grown in Yuma.

Lucille, there were 2-4 cases of the Romaine tainted with e Coli in the entire state of Texas. It's safe.

We had Romaine salad today. Dole brand.

BTW, organically grown lettuce can be contaminated with e.coli. No method is 100% safe. So don't trust a label.

I don't think I've bought romaine from a major market in about a month now. Although I think likely safe again.

We were at a restaurant last month when I remarked to my SIL that the steak salad sounded wonderful, but made with romaine. Our server was passing by and heard me, stopped to tell me theirs was guaranteed safe. I ordered the salad and loved it.

I tossed what I had a while back and then bought more the next time I went to the store. I made a hearty salad for lunch yesterday. Everyone enjoyed it.

May I ask HOW you missed it? It was everywhere! lol

I hadn't heard that there was an all-clear given on it. After a week in the hospital a couple weeks back I don't take chances on it. Romaine is out of my menu until further notice. There's lots of lettuce out there. Actually during the big scare I stayed away from most and especially at restaurants. There's still the cross-contamination issues if they had any romaine around.

I heard 'lettuce' and it didn't sink in as a specific kind, so I just quit eating lettuce.

about a week ago it finally sunk it that it was 'romaine' and I don't buy that. so next trip to the store, I bought some.

but it seems you never know where the problem will pop up next!

I appreciate all the info and advice, thank you

May I ask HOW you missed it? It was everywhere! lol

I do miss more these days, I am now both hearing and vision impaired. And while I can and do get info about my world, there are times that my challenges somewhat overwhelm me. I certainly don't expect to be mocked for my impairments, I didn't ask for them, I do the best I can.

I certainly was not mocking you, and I'm sorry you took it that way. I was seriously incredulous that anyone could have missed the news about it, since it was the lead story on every news station for weeks.

As to being hearing/vision impaired, may I suggest having an email alert set for food and other product recalls so you don't miss them in the future? If you check your email daily, you would at least know about these things that could be further detrimental to your well-being.

https://www.recalls.gov/list.html

Am I the only one that noticed when imstillchloecat posted her question she ended it with a ...lol. For me that usually means I'm being cute not sarcastic.

Eta. Sorry I originally typed wrong name.

I hadn't heard about it either and I started getting terrible stomach pain and nausea. Long story short I ended up at the hospital having a ct. scan. The pain lasted for five weeks, it was a nightmare but I'm fine now. I eat romaine salad every day. I stopped immediately till they gave the all clear sign.

Yayagal I'm glad you recovered.

Going forward, I'm hoping that some new future discovery will help keep people safer from food poisoning. It seems as if, right now, it is a chronic issue. https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2018/4/26/17282378/romaine-lettuce-recall-ecoli-yuma

Thank you Lucille, the only benefit was that the ct scan showed all my organs were in really good condition, that was the positive plus I went down two sizes.

Yayagal. Wow two sizes. That's a major loss. But not knowing you.....is it a good thing or not?

Since I avoid nearly any news broadcasts since the last election - I find no need to have my blood pressure raised unnecessarily about issues over which I have no control - I also missed it. And my faculties are excellent, thank you very much. However, these sorts of widespread alerts seldom present any immediate alarm and I wouldn't avoid buying whatever was the source of some relatively isolated problem unless it was publicized in my local stores. In which case, it would have been pulled from the shelves. I would have much greater concerns about buying produce from my local farmer's market, as that is typically sold without any of the more complicated oversight and regulations that larger commercial operations are required to undertake.

FWIW, I didn't take it as a derogatory comment asking how could you miss it. I know how I miss certain things these days. I avoid a lot of the news programs. I do have the Newsflow app on my computer and I get headlines from a few different sources which keeps me abreast of a lot of important things. You choose the newsfeeds you want. It gives a slider with headlines. If it's something about the Comb-over in Chief sticking his foot in his mouth again, I can easily avoid it. If it's a weather alert, or a headline that harnesses my interest, I check the article. After a recent week in the hospital and 6 units of blood later, I've had other things to concern myself with than fluff news and stories. I can very easily see how someone would miss a thing like the romaine scare. Nothing to be ashamed about. There's other things in life than watching the news all the time. The older I get and the more ridiculousness I see, the less I watch the news. When it's idiot stories, I turn the news off. Don't need that garbage.