Lettuce isn’t food; it’s the food we feed food. Enough esoteric science-fiction horror, Cosh, I hear you saying: but we cannot avoid science-fiction horrors in discussing the latest outbreak of Escherichia coli O157:H7 in romaine lettuce. But romaine lettuce has undoubtedly had a bad year. That may have been a factor in the fast, almost unprecedented directive that took romaine lettuce off Canadian and U.S. shelves last week. You have the all-clear to eat romaine lettuce — should you, for some reason, care to.

Source: National Post November 28, 2018 21:11 UTC