The outbreak linked to romaine lettuce killed one person and sickened at least 88 more, including a 9-year-old boy who nearly died of kidney failure.
An E. coli outbreak linked to romaine lettuce ripped across 15 states in November, sickening dozens of people, including a 9-year-old boy in Indiana who nearly died of kidney failure and a 57-year-old Missouri woman who fell ill after attending a funeral lunch. One person died.
But chances are you haven’t heard about it.
The Food and Drug Administration indicated in February that it had closed the investigation without publicly detailing what had happened — or which companies were responsible for growing and processing the contaminated lettuce.
Thanks professor. I knew I was wise to come onto the Internet for nutritional or medical advice.
Wow, mocking isn’t cool on Lemmy; we are trying to get away from Reddit, not become the next one, right? I have insulted no one here and am certainly no professor in the room. These guys are, though: Heavy metal contamination in vegetables and associated health risks
This article is from March 2025, so it’s not outdated by any means. Lettuce is a hyperaccumulator of heavy metals and food from the surface is increasingly becoming toxic to eat if it isn’t naturally self-protective (like avocados, mushrooms, onions).
Thanks for this. I never thought vegetables could have heavy metals like that. This is actually wild to learn, and it makes me think twice about buying it in the future.
bro get the fuck over yourself.
What exactly does that mean, though; just ignore research? I do believe that it’s worth sounding the alarm about changing our eating habits, even if it sucks.
Now I’m seeing that we may have to abandon rice altogether (which sucks because I live off the stuff): Global warming will make rice toxic due to more arsenic accumulation
It would be nice to be able to ignore new, scary research, but being prepared lets us more gradually make uncomfortable switches. Even this just dropped, so hopefully we’ll be able to figure something out here: Toothpaste widely contaminated with lead and other metals, US research finds (April 17: just yesterday)
Ugh, stop being so fucking helpful.
All this “sharing of informative research which could benefit the health and lives of everyone here” is pissing me off.
Who do you think you are? Some kind of caring person who isn’t stooping down to our level?
Let me die of arsenic poisoning you prick.
Don’t get me wrong; I merely need teammates with whom to survive the coming apocalypse!