US & Canada - Ecoli Lettuce alert

Costco worker told me starting with yesterday noon, they started pulling out all the romaine lettuce from the shelf. I was there in the morning buying the romaine lettuce.
I purchased some other stuff for Finn and Lara's Thanksgiving feast at Costco after returning romaine lettuce.
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Mine love romaine lettuce - it’s practically inhaled when I give them a leaf so feeling relieved this food scare isn’t affecting UK.
I will be checking the origin of mine next time I shop.

Hope no person or pet has been made sick by this
 
Merab's Slave said:
Mine love romaine lettuce - it’s practically inhaled when I give them a leaf so feeling relieved this food scare isn’t affecting UK.
I will be checking the origin of mine next time I shop.

Hope no person or pet has been made sick by this
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After buying romaine lettuce from Costco yesterday morning, I gave both Finn and Lara each a leaf of lettuce for dinner last night. I have been kicking myself pretty much since that time.
I did return romaine lettuce today, and got an explanation that all romaine lettuce was pulled off from shelf pretty much after I left Costco with a giant bag of romaine lettuce yesterday,
I am just hoping they will be ok.
 
Seven7 said:
After buying romaine lettuce from Costco yesterday morning, I gave both Finn and Lara each a leaf of lettuce for dinner last night. I have been kicking myself pretty much since that time.
I did return romaine lettuce today, and got an explanation that all romaine lettuce was pulled off from shelf pretty much after I left Costco with a giant bag of romaine lettuce yesterday,
I am just hoping they will be ok.
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Try not to worry, think of how much lettuce is consumed to the number of reported cases.
 
Seven7 said:
After buying romaine lettuce from Costco yesterday morning, I gave both Finn and Lara each a leaf of lettuce for dinner last night. I have been kicking myself pretty much since that time.
I did return romaine lettuce today, and got an explanation that all romaine lettuce was pulled off from shelf pretty much after I left Costco with a giant bag of romaine lettuce yesterday,
I am just hoping they will be ok.
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Will hold you in my thoughts - praying that Finn & Lara are ok
 
Yikes! :yikes:
Thankfully we caught this a few days ago, there is always plenty of romaine eaten in this house, by the piggies and by us people salad eaters... that went directly to the trash.. :vom:
 
Seven7 said:
I bought this romaine lettuce from Costco today for my Finn and Lara. The label clearly said it is from California. I wasn't sure why Costco will sell this TODAY when the news about ECOLI has been out for some time, and I read it is from CA. From what I know, if romaine lettuce is from Arizona or South America, or there is no label where it came from, we shouldn't buy it and eat it.

I am still going to call Costco and ask tomorrow morning. I have other veggies to give to my Finn and Lara.
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Good to know! I was thinking of going to Costco and opted for Tesco instead! Good eye!
 
I have been paying close attention to Finn and Lara's poop, and they look fine. They are pooping how they have always been pooping. They are also eating as much as they want to eat, and popcorning as usual.
I don’t think they consumed e.coli from the single leaf of lettuce from Costco.

I will continue to monitor them though.
 
sport_billy said:
FOOD ALERT 20th Nov 2018

It seems there has been an outbreak of E.Coli effecting various types of lettuce in the US, please don't feed this to your Pets

Further details here Outbreak of E. coli Infections Linked to Romaine Lettuce | E. coli Infections Linked to Romaine Lettuce | November 2018 | E. coli | CDC

thanks to @MilliePigs and @Lady Kelly for highlighting this
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Thanks for sharing this! I've been struggling finding something else for my girls to eat in the meantime. Does anyone have suggestions? They both enjoy parsley and wheat grass so I've been giving them that instead of romaine lettuce. I did see red leaf and green leaf still in the store but my girls dont like either one. I've also tried turnip greens but they aren't very fond of that either. They both love their romaine so much so I would appreciate any suggestions!❤
 
Seven7 said:
I bought this romaine lettuce from Costco today for my Finn and Lara. The label clearly said it is from California. I wasn't sure why Costco will sell this TODAY when the news about ECOLI has been out for some time, and I read it is from CA. From what I know, if romaine lettuce is from Arizona or South America, or there is no label where it came from, we shouldn't buy it and eat it.

I am still going to call Costco and ask tomorrow morning. I have other veggies to give to my Finn and Lara.
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I live in Arizona and all the romaine is off the shelves, even at Costco and Walmart. I also bought a big bag like this and was told to throw it away.
 
Adrianne88 said:
Thanks for sharing this! I've been struggling finding something else for my girls to eat in the meantime. Does anyone have suggestions? They both enjoy parsley and wheat grass so I've been giving them that instead of romaine lettuce. I did see red leaf and green leaf still in the store but my girls dont like either one. I've also tried turnip greens but they aren't very fond of that either. They both love their romaine so much so I would appreciate any suggestions!❤
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Coriander?
 
Adrianne88 said:
I live in Arizona and all the romaine is off the shelves, even at Costco and Walmart. I also bought a big bag like this and was told to throw it away.
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I returned my bag of romaine lettuce to Costco because it was purchased the day before and nearly the entire bag was uneaten. It is also a Giant Bag as you can imagine, Costco never sells anything in small size.

I bought this giant bag of lettuce from Costco in the morning, and on the same day starting at noon, Costco pulled all the romaine lettuce from the shelf. Pretty much after I walked out of the Costco with a bag of romaine lettuce, they started taking them off from the shelf. I am in Michigan.

At the time of my returning the romaine lettuce, there was zero romaine lettuce at Costco.
 
Seven7 said:
I have been paying close attention to Finn and Lara's poop, and they look fine. They are pooping how they have always been pooping. They are also eating as much as they want to eat, and popcorning as usual.
I don’t think they consumed e.coli from the single leaf of lettuce from Costco.

I will continue to monitor them though.
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I'm sure they will be fine. Are you from Adrian?
 
Chicory is one of the veggies that gets inhaled - I’m sure it doesn’t touch the sides on the way down.
They all enjoy red chard - it was Merab’s favourite, she always made sure she got at it first.
 
Merab's Slave said:
Chicory is one of the veggies that gets inhaled - I’m sure it doesn’t touch the sides on the way down.
They all enjoy red chard - it was Merab’s favourite, she always made sure she got at it first.
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Merab's Slave said:
Chicory is one of the veggies that gets inhaled - I’m sure it doesn’t touch the sides on the way down.
They all enjoy red chard - it was Merab’s favourite, she always made sure she got at it first.
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Meg's favourite is aubergine (egg plant for those of you in the States). If she doesn't notice its there (not very often) I tell her that she has aubergine and she immediately drops what she is eating and goes in search of it.
 
Merab's Slave said:
Clever girl Meg.
I’ve never tried aubergine - must get some and give it a go
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I know! When I first gave them aubergine (@Tim recommended it) Meg tried it and loved it and I told the piggies I had something new to try and it was aubergine (I always let them know when they are getting something new) and now whenever Meg hears the word "aubergine" she always searches for it.
 
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