I just heard a report, on NPR’s “All things Considered” , saying that they had traced the source to an organic company in California. They also said that the FDA is advising that washing the spinach will NOT help. You shoud not eat the fresh spinach.
They may get a better ID on the contaminated products, but for now it looks like extreme caution is needed.
I hadn’t been paying attention to this until I saw a headling go by:
“Health Warning: Don’t eat spinach.”
As a child, I would have killed for such a directive in writing.
The headline on AOL right now is “Bad Spinach Traced To Company.”
Good to have that cleared up. I had been under the impression that all that spinach spontaneously leaped into bags.
I posted this info on Fathom as well, and someone posted that their grandmother is currently in the hospital and their grandfather is ill as well, from this e-coli/spinach thing. So this is real… it’s not just something you see on the news. Don’t take risks. Have some romaine lettuce instead for a couple of weeks until this passes.
Or buy free-range spinach that hasn’t been fattened up in a restrictive bag.
I had spinach Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. No symptoms yet. I guess I’m a survivor.
Actually, that’s kinda’ the problem. The spinach in question was grown “organically” and was likely contaminated by the use of manure as fertilizer. So, you could say, it is “free range”. 
“Natural Selection Foods voluntarily recalled its products containing spinach and is cooperating with federal and state health officials to identify the source of the contamination. Its products are sold as Rave Spinach, Natural Selection Foods, Dole, Earthbound Farm, Trader Joe’s, Ready Pac and Green Harvest, among other brand names.The company said consumers could call 800-690-3200 for a refund or replacement coupons for tossed-out spinach products.”
Wow.
And to think I had considered buying a small tub of Earthbound Farm spring mix yesterday for lunch. (I didn’t 'cos the due date was only a few days away and my experience with EF and due dates is that they’re woefully inaccurate)
Heh heh heh… Natural Selection… heh heh heh…
But you’re right, it is fucked up. I buy Trader Joe’s and Ready Pac pretty regularly. In fact, it’s what I fed the husband the other night…
My elderly mom has been agonizing about this the past few days…she buys bagged spinach and cooks it, and she absolutely hates to throw anything away, ever. My daughter and I reassured her that the news reports on the internet mentioned that thoroughly cooked spinach would be okay, but since they haven’t said that on the radio where she can hear it, or on the TV, or in the local paper, she’s frozen in indecision. Throwing away that last half-cup of cooked spinach just to be on the safe side is so totally against her nature, but eating it scares her. Let’s hope there is a line in the next article in the Plain Dealer, or else I will have to print out something from the MSN story for her.
It looks pretty suspicious if you feed it to him but don’t eat any yourself, you know…!!!
Does she still have the bag it came in, or the store receipt? I’d bet that she can get her money back. Cooking it, depending on how it’s done, may not render it safe to eat.
Yeah, don’t think I didn’t think of that… but really, I’m an iceberg girl and he prefers more variety, so I throw a handful of bagged stuff into his salad bowl.
From my earlier post: “The company said consumers could call 800-690-3200 for a refund or replacement coupons for tossed-out spinach products.”
I’ve got a bag that probably fits (I ate half of it before the warning came out) and then I tossed it. Considering that it would save me maybe all of four bucks, I don’t think I’ll try getting it.