Canada and US urged on avoiding romaine lettuce amid E coli outbreak
Health officials in Canada and the US told people on Tuesday to avoid eating the romaine lettuce due to a new E coli outbreak.
According to The US Food and Drug Administration, this was working with the officials in Canada on an outbreak, that leads to get sickened 18 people in the Canadian provinces of Quebec and Ontario and 32 people in 11 states in the US.
Strain identified this different from the one linked to the romaine earlier in this year, but it’s looking similar to the linked one to the leafy greens in the last year.
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Scott Gottlieb, FDA commissioner said that the agency was not having enough information to request the suppliers to issue a recall, but Scott said that restaurants and supermarkets should withdraw all of their romaine products until the contamination get identified.
Till now, no deaths have been reported, but 13 became sick in the US and all were hospitalized.
Tracing the source of lettuce may be difficult because it’s often repackaged by a middleman, said Sarah Sorscher, the deputy director at the Center for Science in the Public Interest. This means the whole industry becomes implicated in all of the outbreaks, even if all products are not contaminated.
Sorscher also said that Washing lettuce doesn’t mean that contaminated lettuce is safe and sound.
Most of the E coli bacteria are benign but some may cause illness, with a number of symptoms including vomiting, diarrhea, and severe stomach cramps.
